[Wikipedia-l] Re: Newspaper links article keywords to Wikipedia

Henry Tan-Tenn share2002nov at lomaji.com
Wed Mar 16 21:13:37 UTC 2005


Andre Engels ti 2005/3/14 ChS 04:27 sia-kong:
> Their algorithm seems to be to link all capitalized words, except at
> the beginning of a sentence.

I see patterns like "...but Chief [[Cabinet]] Secretary [[Hiroyuki 
Hosoda]]...", so it seems to be a bit more than that.  In any case the 
feature isn't Earth-chattering but it's worth seeing if more mainstream 
media will similarly interface with Wikipedia (and Wikinews), and 
whether that has impact on Wikipedia's content development.




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