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9 commentsTuesday, April 8, 2008

Wikipedia Defers To Google

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thanks for your article.

thanks for your article. Very help me. I will more like visit to webpronews site. :) Fantastic

Good Luck with the Wiki Spam

Unfortunately dealing with Search spam is different from dealing with Article spam.

 

Good luck to Wikipedia in trying to keep out the spammers!

 

John

maroonbox.com

wiki authority

well  wikipedia is not always in touch with trends.

Powerset + Wikipedia

Speculation is always fun but. . . the content in Wikipedia is under the GNU Free Document License.  Powerset doesn't have any special relationship with them, though it is true that we're building a search and explore experience largely based on Wikipedia.  More coming soon!

-Mark Johnson, Powerset Product Manager

clearing up

As per my email reply: Mark, the "grand collaboration" was in the second half of that article, which was intended to be humorous and a bit over the top with speculation. I was actually trying to make a point about online journalism, not so much about Wikipedia or Powerset...and I'll have to take a look at it again to make sure that's clearer. Someone else missed the point, too, and if there's more than one to do so, then maybe something should be clearer. If you look at it, the article is presented in an unconventional way, so I can see it may be confusing to some. I brought out the truth in the beginning of that, what the reality was, followed it up with a suggestion that bloggers and online journalists don't have time to be thorough, and then finished the joke (my apparently bad punchline) with an example of the speculation that comes without doing the legwork, which I had done by getting the quote from Vibber to explain what was going on. Sorry it wasn't clear to some. Just keeping things interesting.

Non-speculation

Here's what's actually happening with Wikipedia search, from the people actually implementing it - as has been discussed at length on wikitech-l in the past month or two. Reading the list and asking questions on it can avoid idle speculation masquerading as blog posts.

you missed the point

anything could masquerade as a blog post these days, even an unconventional essay on the nature of online journalism

the point was somewhere toward the middle, when I talked about reality versus speculation and the speed with which online journalists are expected to post instead of being thorough

Congratulations. You get the blue ribbon for being the first to miss the point

In all fairness, as the communicator, it's partly my job to make sure you get the point, but I didn't want to insult anybody by overstating it.

Wikia and Wikipedia

If & when Wikipedia becomes the showcase for Wikia, I wonder what the response will be from the fanatics who insist on claiming the two organisations are unconnected. Should Wikia be making money on the back of volunteer's efforts? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikia&diff=188393173&oldid=188335402

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