The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1] and I suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an extract from Wikipedia resides on the right part of search page.
It is very neat feature and I have noticed you get it from the language version you are used to, meaning it is not only using enwp as Facebook does. It also uses some intelligent way of doing the extract as it is not 100% as the wikiepdiatext and also find illustrations from other sources than Wikipedia/commons.
Does anyone know the background and technique/algorithms behind, or have they developed this all by themselves?
Anders [1) http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
On 29 September 2013 11:02, Anders Wennersten [email protected] wrote:
The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1] and I suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an extract from Wikipedia resides on the right part of search page.
It is very neat feature and I have noticed you get it from the language version you are used to, meaning it is not only using enwp as Facebook does. It also uses some intelligent way of doing the extract as it is not 100% as the wikiepdiatext and also find illustrations from other sources than Wikipedia/commons.
Does anyone know the background and technique/algorithms behind, or have they developed this all by themselves?
Anders [1) http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
I know that I'm rather impressed with my Nexus 7, which nicely speaks back to me aloud, explaining answers to my spoken questions using text from Wikipedia. My Mother, who is in her mid 70's, finds the voice interface intuitive and needed no training before using this as a way to access the 'sum of human knowledge'. :-D
I can't fault the outcome of this development work, it would be interesting to find out how much of the code is reusable or if there are plans for an API so we can piggy-back some interesting apps on it.
Fae
We actually hosted a couple of people from the search team who work with Wikipedia at the office the other day. If people are interested in talking to them about this kinda thing, drop me an email and I'll put you in touch.
On 29 September 2013 03:10, Fæ [email protected] wrote:
On 29 September 2013 11:02, Anders Wennersten [email protected] wrote:
The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1] and
I
suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an extract from Wikipedia resides on the right part of search page.
It is very neat feature and I have noticed you get it from the language version you are used to, meaning it is not only using enwp as Facebook
does.
It also uses some intelligent way of doing the extract as it is not 100%
as
the wikiepdiatext and also find illustrations from other sources than Wikipedia/commons.
Does anyone know the background and technique/algorithms behind, or have they developed this all by themselves?
Anders [1) http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
I know that I'm rather impressed with my Nexus 7, which nicely speaks back to me aloud, explaining answers to my spoken questions using text from Wikipedia. My Mother, who is in her mid 70's, finds the voice interface intuitive and needed no training before using this as a way to access the 'sum of human knowledge'. :-D
I can't fault the outcome of this development work, it would be interesting to find out how much of the code is reusable or if there are plans for an API so we can piggy-back some interesting apps on it.
Fae
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What Oliver said,
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>
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Oliver Keyes [email protected] wrote:
We actually hosted a couple of people from the search team who work with Wikipedia at the office the other day. If people are interested in talking to them about this kinda thing, drop me an email and I'll put you in touch.
On 29 September 2013 03:10, Fæ [email protected] wrote:
On 29 September 2013 11:02, Anders Wennersten [email protected] wrote:
The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1]
and
I
suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an extract from Wikipedia resides on the right part of search page.
It is very neat feature and I have noticed you get it from the language version you are used to, meaning it is not only using enwp as Facebook
does.
It also uses some intelligent way of doing the extract as it is not
100%
as
the wikiepdiatext and also find illustrations from other sources than Wikipedia/commons.
Does anyone know the background and technique/algorithms behind, or
have
they developed this all by themselves?
Anders [1) http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
I know that I'm rather impressed with my Nexus 7, which nicely speaks back to me aloud, explaining answers to my spoken questions using text from Wikipedia. My Mother, who is in her mid 70's, finds the voice interface intuitive and needed no training before using this as a way to access the 'sum of human knowledge'. :-D
I can't fault the outcome of this development work, it would be interesting to find out how much of the code is reusable or if there are plans for an API so we can piggy-back some interesting apps on it.
Fae
[email protected] http://j.mp/faewm
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On 30 September 2013 03:42, James Alexander [email protected] 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.
Hoi, Wikidata has a limit of one link of a Wikipedia article to Wikidata. There is no such thing as a compulsory minimum of two articles. As a matter a fact there are many Wikidata items that have no relations to Wikipedia articles. To make this even more obvious, Wikidata also links to Commons and Wikivoyage. This means that Wikidata is not Wikipedia centric.
The main point of Wikidata is that its information can be used in our projects, that it is useful in bringing the sum of all knowledge to our readers. That it does. There are a number of Wikipedias who use the information of Wikidata for their stubs. Consequently when the information of the subjects of these articles are enriched in Wikidata, new information flows into these Wikipedias. Thanks, GerardM
On 30 September 2013 09:29, David Gerard [email protected] wrote:
On 30 September 2013 03:42, James Alexander [email protected] 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.
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Anders Wennersten, 29/09/2013 12:02:
The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1]
You mean positive +25 % don't you? I don't see this figure anywhere, where are you looking? There is a +25 % in August compared to July in sv.wiki (but single-month peaks are not to be trusted that much).
and I suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an extract from Wikipedia resides on the right part of search page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph Usually it's been anectodically blamed for reducing rather than increasing visits. There is no clear timeline of the changes they did so it's hard to make correlations in a serious way (nobody even tried so far, I think?).
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo) skrev 2013-09-30 06:15:
Anders Wennersten, 29/09/2013 12:02:
The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1]
You mean positive +25 % don't you? I don't see this figure anywhere, where are you looking? There is a +25 % in August compared to July in sv.wiki (but single-month peaks are not to be trusted that much).
Look at September figures too. The total is over 25 000 up 25% from July Anders
Anders Wennersten, 30/09/2013 06:45:
Look at September figures too. The total is over 25 000 up 25% from July
Oh, sure. I tend to ignore projections but they're at the 28th already. I'm curious to see next months, indeed the table doesn't have many cases of two consecutive months with two-figures increase.
Nemo