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[edit] Looking forward to a free text database

Allowing structured queries to be done with the aid of templates and annotation tags. And capable of allowing graph based criteria. Wonder if the Semantic Wikipedia will do that.

Need geocoding/mapping features.

Need AJAX based SVG editor.

[edit] My feature request

Wikipedia right now allows linking of pages. Once it allows embedding it will virtually become like a database driven website. Only the database itself would be other wikipedia pages. I am just dying for that feature.

discovered that this is called wikipedia:Transclusion ! Darned and no one on the help desk knew about it :(

[edit] Old fear

Sooner or later Google or its contemporaries will have to seriously use Wikipedia as a reference corpus for word-association building in the 'Cyc' style [1].

What would happen to Wikipedia then ?

Another nice application would be to track the way users forage through the wikipedia. Like ant-trails these could be used to put scent-trails and strengthen topic associations.

From: Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
To: Shyamal
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:11:35 -0700

I do not own Wikipedia, it is owned by the nonprofit Wikimedia 
Foundation, which I founded and am the president of. It really isn't 
possible to sell Wikipedia to anyone. 

However, the concept of intelligent word association is a great one, 
and I've played around a bit with the data myself toward that end. I 
do expect people will make use of it. 

Perhaps the smartest or dumbest thing I ever did was to give Wikipedia 
to a nonprofit organization. :-) 

Shyamal wrote: 

> Hi Jimmy, 
> 
> Just a query out of curiosity. 
> 
> Sooner or later, someone like Google would like to make use of Wikipedia for
> intelligent word association identification (the 'Cyc' idea) and they are 
> probably going to be interested in getting more control as well i guess. 
> Would you sell Wikipedia off to Google if they made a huge offer ? 
> 
> I am interested merely in your stand on this. 
> 
> best wishes 
> Shyamal 
> ps: a very belated thanks for wikipedia :) 
> 
>