I was speaking with Barbara Page last night (Barbara's highlighting of this issue in a Wikipediocracy blog post http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/ prompted Andreas to open this discussion) last night and she told me when she asks Alexa about ovarian cancer these days, Alexa begins with "According to Wikipedia..." Can anyone else with Alexa confirm this?
On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 at 3:55 am, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I checked in with Adele today, to ask about progress on the Amazon Echo licensing issue, and whether she had a rough idea when she'd be able to report back to us.
Adele was happy for me to pass on here that we're unlikely to hear anything further about this until September, as Wikimania is looming, and she will be off on a much-needed holiday after that.
Adele added that the timeline really depends on the Amazon staff they contacted. While she will let us know as soon as she hears from them, the call required for this type of outreach will probably only happen in September.
Best, Andreas
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Adele Vrana avrana@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello,
I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation.
We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions raised
on
this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an update.
All the best, Adele
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Simon Poole simon@poole.ch wrote:
Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ...
I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article version
that
matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume
that
this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had gone
by
the time the video was uploaded to YouTube.
The current (full) answer is
'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional former CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.'
Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe that Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and so
on.
Simon
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