[Wikimedia-l] New Google interface to Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 30 September 2013 03:42, James Alexander <jalexander at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> They are really interested in finding ways to feed back into the ecosystem
> where there algorithm says that there is a mistake (interlanguage links
> pointing to two different subjects, contradictions between article and
> infobox etc). They are probably going to reach out to wikidata (and Lydia)
> first for the interlanguage links but it would be great to have some
> community members helping to shepherd them and find good uses for their
> data. Oliver's your man! <runs away>



I notice with Wikidata-based interwikis, there's now an enforced 1-1
relationship between related articles in different wikis. Which is not
*always* accurate, but is considerably easier to machine-analyse.


- d.