[Wikipedia-l] Showing causation among articles

Tue Jul 13 09:26:31 UTC 2004

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:59:55 -0400 (EDT), Abe <arafi at umich.edu> wrote:
> If users did this for many articles, then a network of causation would
> emerge, where the nodes of the network are articles and the links are
> "influences".  This network could be exploited through a search tool that
> finds paths of articles between article A and B.

Interesting but how do we resolve the POV problem? do we want endless
arguments over whether America influenced the Taliban; George Bush
influenced oil markets; oil influenced Gulf war.... to name a few?

Hemanshu