[Wikipedia-l] Fwd: Re: Wikipedia/OneLook

Wed Sep 25 02:32:39 UTC 2002

Wikipedia is now indexed by OneLook.com. I've asked
Doug to change the credit from my name to "the
Wikipedia project".

Stephen G.

--- Doug Beeferman <doug at dougb.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:35:26 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Doug Beeferman <doug at dougb.com>
> To: Stephen Gilbert <canuck_in_korea2002 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Wikipedia/OneLook
> 
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Thanks for pointing me to that report page on
> Wikipedia.  It will work for
> the time being;  I configured my OneLook update
> engine to download the
> article names monthly using a limit of 1000 articles
> per fetch, so that
> amounts to just 80 or so requests per month, which I
> hope will be a pretty
> negligible burden on Wikipedia's server(s).  You're
> right that this isn't
> ideal as an export mechanism.  Something like a
> single XML/RDF feed would
> be best, I think.
> 
> I think Wikipedia makes a great addition to OneLook,
> especially for its
> breadth in many categories (famous people, event
> names, places) that
> aren't well-covered by conventional online
> glossaries/dictionaries.
> 
> In the import rules I excluded a handful of types of
> article names that
> aren't "lexicographic" in the sense that they're not
> written the way
> people would look them up.  Like "Academy
> Awards/Visual Effects" or the
> nodes beginning with "Talk:" or "Image:"  There were
> 61412 terms retained
> in total.
> 
> I've credited you on the dictionary's "info" page on
> OneLook;  let me know
> if there's some person/entity that is more
> appropriate to credit.
> 
> And by the way, lest I forget to give you the pitch
> I give to every
> dictionary provider I talk to -- OneLook might be a
> useful "fallback" site
> to reference when Wikipedia users do a search that
> comes up empty.  For
> example, while "Phil Hartman"  produces no article
> matches on Wikipedia,
> it does turn up in one of the 804 dictionaries
> indexed by OneLook, a
> biographical dictionary.  ( See
> http://www.onelook.com/?w=phil+hartman )
> 
> Take care,
> Doug

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