I recommend Wikidata for that. Maybe not quite as complete as Wikipedia categories yet, but much more precise.
[BEGIN SHAMELESS PLUG] And you can make live, complex queries: http://wikidata-wdq-mm.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org/wdq/ [END SHAMELESS PLUG] On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > Hallo, > > Is there any known easy way to classify Wikipedia articles into a > relatively small number of types? > > By "relatively small" I mean no more than twenty, and by "types" I mean > things that are intuitively clear to readers, for example: > * Biographies > * Articles about scientific phenomena (can be sub-grouped to math, > astronomy, physics, geology, medicine) > * Articles about works of art (paintings, movies, books, records, statues) > * Articles about places > * Articles about historical events > * Articles about biological species > * Articles that mostly present data, such as demography or results of > competitions (sports, elections, game shows) > > There are a few more, but not much. I hope that you get the idea. > > We have categories, but I'm not sure that it's easy to use categories for > such things because of the very loose category structure. For example, > [[Eurovision 2007]] is somewhere under [[Category:Humans]], even though > it's not an article about a human. > > Such information can be useful for study about the types of articles that > different people write. In particular, I thought about it in the context of > analyzing the types of articles that people are translating now (manually) > and will translate in the future using the ContentTranslation, which is in > its early stages of development. > > Thanks, > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- undefined
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