2008/12/1 geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > People use the search feature on commons? > > I would assume they would click the link at the bottom of > > http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paard_(dier) and get taken to > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Equus_caballus?uselang=nl
This is a valid point, especially when one uses it as a starting point to think about search. It might be feasible to build a search tool on the basis of this existing tagging of Wikipedia articles to Commons media -- and similarly, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and so on. This is an alternative to the notion of one giant ontology that's used for tagging. Instead you would treat a wiki -- any wiki -- as the ontology. So you could do a Wikinews/Commons search for terrorism, a Wiktionary/Commons search for pronunciations, etc. Because the approach would be wiki-agnostic, it would also be language-agnostic, and yield useful results as long as the underlying wiki is large enough and its articles are well tagged to Commons. What would be the technical requirements of this approach and what would be its disadvantages? -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
