2008/5/11 michael cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is the correct place to ask. > > In Wikipedia articles, a small number of words are bolded in the body of > the article text, I'm interested to know the basis for selecting these words > and whether it is carried out automatically or by the author. Is there some > ontology used? > > Thanks, > > Michael Cole > Library and Information Science > Rutgers University > -- > Michael Cole > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediameta-l mailing list > Wikimediameta-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediameta-l > > The title of the article is always bolded, per the Manual of Style ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_style) Other words may be bolded to place emphasis on them. Most if not all are done manually.
A better list to ask this would be wikien-l at lists dot wikimedia dot org Thanks, -- Alex Newman http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Majorly
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