[Wikipedia-l] Showing causation among articles

Tue Jul 13 00:24:59 UTC 2004

> Wikipedia has proven itself as an effective process for creating
> encyclopedia articles.  But, there's an easy way to give Wikipedia the
> ability to to show causal relations among articles.

It's a great idea, although for it to be useful for any kind of analysis
we would have to work out a system to show the extent and type of
relationships involved.  More importantly, however, how many people
would be willing to put the time into cataloging our existing (now
more 300,000 on en, for instance) articles?  The kind of study you
propose wouldn't be useful unless the information were reasonably
complete.

It may be "easy" to implement technologically (a new namespace and a
minor UI change), but building it up to the point of usefulness is
another story entirely.

> Abe

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Austin D. Hair <austin at austinhair.org>
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