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Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface
What is a wiki? How does information get into Wikipedia in the first place? Who creates it? This short animation introduces viewers to what goes on behind-the-scenes so they can make the best use of what’s on the surface. Watch a higher quality version with captioning here: www.lib.ncsu.edu This video was created by North Carolina State University Libraries: www.lib.ncsu.edu Reproduction of the Wikipedia logo and trademark by specific permission of the Wikimedia Foundation granted to NC State University.
The State of Wikipedia by JESS3
Created by JESS3: The State of Wikipedia not only explores the rich history and inner-workings of the web-based encyclopedia, but it’s also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. With more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages, Wikipedia has undoubtedly become one of the most visited and relied upon sites on the web today. The fourth video in our the “State of” series, JESS3 is proud to release The State of Wikipedia as our first video of 2011. And, as if it weren’t good enough, the video features none other than one of the co-founders himself, Jimmy Wales, as the narrator. jess3.com
How to Create a Wikipedia Article
Expand the description and view the text of the steps for this how-to video. Check out Howcast for other do-it-yourself videos from benoviatt and more videos in the General Internet category. You can contribute too! Create your own DIY guide at www.howcast.com or produce your own Howcast spots with the Howcast Filmmakers Program at www.howcast.com Share your expertise on a subject by writing about it for Wikipedia, the world’s biggest encyclopedia. This multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia already contains millions of articles, but there’s always room for something new. Why not publish something by you? To complete this How-To you will need: Internet access Notable topic Reliable sources Step 1: Have the right topic Before you try to create an article, make sure you have an appropriate topic. Wikipedia wants unbiased, well-sourced information about subjects that are notable enough to appear in an encyclopedia. The site rejects articles that promote or publicize a business; advice — legal, medical or otherwise; instructional material; travel guides; and news items. Tip: Get ideas for topics by typing WP:RA in the search box; a list of articles requested by others will appear. Step 2: Source your work Make sure you get the information for your article from a credible, reliable source. Material in books and newspapers is generally considered reliable; the musings of bloggers are not. And don’t bother writing about yourself; it’s considered a conflict of …
Intelligence in Wikipedia
Google Tech Talks November 11, 2008 ABSTRACT Berners-Lee’s vision of the Semantic Web is hindered by a chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a bootstrapping method: creating enough structured data to motivate the development of applications. We believe that autonomously `Semantifying Wikipedia’ is the best way to bootstrap. We choose Wikipedia as an initial data source, because it is comprehensive, high-quality, modestly sized, and contains enough manually-derived structure to bootstrap an autonomous, self-supervised process. In this talk I will present our success to date in this endeavor: A novel approach for self-supervised learning of CRF information extractors Automatic construction of a comprehensive ontology via statistical-relational learning Vast improvements in extraction recall through shrinkage over this ontology and retraining The stimulation of a virtuous feedback cycle between communal content creation and information extraction We aim to construct a knowledge base of outstanding size to support inference, automatic question answering, faceted browsing, and potentially to bootstrap the Semantic Web. Speaker: Daniel S. Weld Daniel S. Weld is Thomas J. Cable / WRF Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. After formative education at Phillips Academy, he received bachelor’s degrees in both Computer Science and Biochemistry at Yale University in 1982. He landed a Ph.D. from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab …