On 11/22/13 6:44 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote:
> > For what it's worth, that was also our choice in MusicBrainz: store > links, and show Wikipedia extracts with a "read more" link (we cache > them for a while IIRC though, not always re-request them). AHA! I bet that's where I saw it, because I've been digging around in MusicBrainz lately. It sometimes > gives meh results when Wikipedia articles don't have a good abstract, > but then that's something people can go and fix :) > > Also FWIW, our likely plan for the future is to move towards storing > Wikidata IDs rather than Wikipedia links directly, since those join > together every Wikipedia's page for the artist, album or whatever > (authors and works for you I guess?) and make it easier to display the > right language depending on interface language if you translate the site. I realize this is an OL list, but anyone who does Wikipedia editing should also be aware of: http://www.wikidata.org/, especially if you can help combine data from different language wikis. Multi-lingual editors are needed. kc > > Cheers, > Nicolás -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
