2009/8/24 :
> What about "movie stars" ? That's not quite as vague. Can we do that today
> without human intervention? People who have been in a film? Or is that too
> vague
It can be done with say actors and actresses. Fun area since
apparently it has number of closely related infoboxes which
In a message dated 8/24/2009 12:23:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
geni...@gmail.com writes:
> Birth dates and locations tend to be fairly structured within articles
> so are fairly easy to get. Dealing with a term as vauge as "celebrity"
> make the task impossible even with human intervention.>>
2009/8/24 :
> In a message dated 8/24/2009 10:47:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> geni...@gmail.com writes:
>
>
>> Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured
>> entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping stone in this
>> direction.>>
>>
>
>
>
> "What is the name
In a message dated 8/24/2009 10:47:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
geni...@gmail.com writes:
> Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured
> entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping stone in this
> direction.>>
>
"What is the name of every celebrity born in
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/8/24 geni :
>
>> In practice the end point of Natural language processing and large
>> scale digitalisation is likely to be made to request computer
>> generated custom articles. Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured
>> entries is li
2009/8/24 David Gerard :
> Yes. Rather a lot of conversations I have with random geeks are along
> these lines.
>
> Basically, infoboxes = machine-readable data = good. So the way to go
> there would be to make template plumbing give data more amenable to
> chewing on. (Standardised names for templ
2009/8/24 geni :
> In practice the end point of Natural language processing and large
> scale digitalisation is likely to be made to request computer
> generated custom articles. Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured
> entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping stone in this
> di
2009/8/24 Carcharoth :
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, wrote:
>
>
>
>> You silly goose. Don't you realize that when we all have brain implants
>> that retain a quintabyte that the internet won't exist at all. We'll be in
>> constant streaming twitter mode all the time. There won't be "artic
Carcharoth wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, wrote:
>
>
>
>
>> You silly goose. Don't you realize that when we all have brain implants
>> that retain a quintabyte that the internet won't exist at all. We'll be in
>> constant streaming twitter mode all the time. There won't be "artic
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, wrote:
> You silly goose. Don't you realize that when we all have brain implants
> that retain a quintabyte that the internet won't exist at all. We'll be in
> constant streaming twitter mode all the time. There won't be "articles" per
> se, and you won't get
In a message dated 8/23/2009 1:59:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bodnot...@gmail.com writes:
>
> Do you think it would be hopelessly superseded by brain implants that
> give us access to all knowledge all of the time? Who's to say that
> that knowledge wouldn't be provided by Wikipedia?>>
>
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Of course the whole reason you'd want to put a reference to Vienna
into the article on Vienne is that it's a French name, and if you
happen to be reading a French text using Wikipedia as a reference it
might be useful for you to know that the name Vienne may sometimes
refer to a foreign capital.
C
> but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit wouldn't be a
> part of that?
You mean the Wikimedia foundation?
Emily
On Aug 23, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, wrote:
>
>> The "content" of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay. It's been
>> c
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, wrote:
> The "content" of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay. It's been
> copied so many times by now, that nothing can eradicate it.
> Wikipedia itself however probably won't live more than ten more years at
> the most :)
>
> In twenty years, we will live
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:52 AM, wrote:
> In a message dated 8/22/2009 11:24:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> bodnot...@gmail.com writes:
>
>
> > I do sometimes get into the mindset of thinking "everything I do with
> > Wikipedia might be a waste of time" because I envision it collapsing,
> > dying
In a message dated 8/22/2009 11:24:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bodnot...@gmail.com writes:
> I do sometimes get into the mindset of thinking "everything I do with
> Wikipedia might be a waste of time" because I envision it collapsing,
> dying, being fatally attacked or somesuch.>>
>
-
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:04 AM, wrote:
> I will wager $100 that Wikipedia will be gone long before the sun turns
> into a Red Giant.
I hope Wikipedia at least outlives me.
I do sometimes get into the mindset of thinking "everything I do with
Wikipedia might be a waste of time" because I envisi
In a message dated 8/22/2009 8:59:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
kgnp...@gmail.com writes:
> Right well, I'll start brushing up on my Breton and by the time I get
> around
> to learning Vietnamese the sun will have obliterated the earth and
> Wikipedia
> as we know it.>>--
I will wager
In a message dated 8/22/2009 8:04:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
carcharot...@googlemail.com writes:
> Will, is this genealogy webpage reliable at all?
>
> http://gilles.maillet.free.fr/histoire/famille_bourgogne/famille_vienne.htm
> >>
Well one thing I always cauti
In a message dated 8/22/2009 6:44:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
stv...@gmail.com writes:
> How is it claimed that we are bound to English spelling only, and yet
> permit all the Nordic, Germanic, and French characters* - few of which
> most *English* speakers know the pronunciation of. (*?)>>
--
>
> Meanwhile, back on the English Wikipedia, a bot has added loads of
> interwikis:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vienne_(disambiguation)&diff=309530294&oldid=309522639
>
> I wonder if all those are correct or not?
>
> Carcharoth
>
> __
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
> And does "Vienne" actually mean anything in French? Google Translate
> helpfully tells me that "Vienne" means "Vienna" (yes, we knew that
> already).
Amongst possibly other things it's the subjunctive third person
singular of the verb "venir" (t
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:43 AM, stevertigo wrote:
>> carcharot...@googlemail.com writes:
>>> *a département of France
>>> *a French river
>>> *a French city
>>> *the French name for Vienna>>
>
> Shouldn't it be [[Vienne]]? With the lede starting out"
> '''Vienne''' (English spelling: Vienna), is
> carcharot...@googlemail.com writes:
>> *a département of France
>> *a French river
>> *a French city
>> *the French name for Vienna>>
Shouldn't it be [[Vienne]]? With the lede starting out"
'''Vienne''' (English spelling: Vienna), is a city...
A bit off topic, but I'd love to throw down and s
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