Re: [Wikitech-l] question regarding crawling wikipedia for information

2013-09-11 Thread Gryllida
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, at 12:42, Wenqin Ye wrote: > If we are creating an ai app that needs to get information , would we be > allowed to crawl wikipedia for this information? The app would probably be > a search query of some kind, that give information back to the user, one of > the sites used is w

Re: [Wikitech-l] question regarding crawling wikipedia for information

2013-09-11 Thread Yury Katkov
IMHO, the time when you had to invest time into crawling wikipedia have long past. I'd recommend to use Dbpedia who have already crawled a lot of data from wikipedia. They also have a tool for altering and tuning their parsers, http://mappings.dbpedia.org . - Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Wed, Se

Re: [Wikitech-l] question regarding crawling wikipedia for information

2013-09-10 Thread MZMcBride
Wenqin Ye wrote: >If we are creating an ai app that needs to get information , would we be >allowed to crawl wikipedia for this information? The app would probably be >a search query of some kind, that give information back to the user, one >of >the sites used is wikipedia. The app would use parts

[Wikitech-l] question regarding crawling wikipedia for information

2013-09-10 Thread Wenqin Ye
If we are creating an ai app that needs to get information , would we be allowed to crawl wikipedia for this information? The app would probably be a search query of some kind, that give information back to the user, one of the sites used is wikipedia. The app would use parts of wikipedia's article