Greetings Sylvian,
The Discovery department has been talking pretty actively with WMDE
about this very topic. We've already explored WikiData descriptions in
search results, brainstormed about how relevance functions could be
affected by WikiData, seen great community tools like ppp-sparql
connect natural language search and WikiData through WDQS [1], and
started to think about structured data on commons [2].
If any of those interest you, then please join us on irc
#wikimedia-discovery and we can chat more.
--tomasz
[1] -
https://tools.wmflabs.org/ppp-sparql/#What%20is%20the%20population%20of%20P…
[2] -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68108
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Sylvain Zimmer
<sylvain(a)sylvainzimmer.com> wrote:
Hi,
Some of you may be familiar with
http://commoncrawl.org ; they are
doing an excellent job of making large crawls of the web accessible to
everyone.
I've been working on an open search engine based on these crawls for a
while, and I would love to have your feedbacks on the project:
https://about.commonsearch.org/
Specifically, I would be curious to know what you would consider to be
the best possible integration of Wikipedia & Wikidata in a general
search engine?
As a first step, we have just started using the "official website"
property from Wikidata and we are considering importing the Wikipedia
abstracts next (
https://github.com/commonsearch/cosr-back/issues/11).
I'm looking forward to your feedbacks... or contributions! :-)
Thanks in advance,
PS: A few wikimedians recommended me to post on wikitech-l to keep the
focus on the technical aspects of the project and hopefully avoid
linking this project in any way to the KE stuff, which it actually
predates by far (
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6209088).
--
Sylvain Zimmer
http://sylvinus.org
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