Brian, I also missed the very subtle changes to the page- but I would say, hyperlinking "scientists" and "headaches" etc every other word is gonna give the reader sore eyes and thousands of hours of lost work as they educate themselves in mass trivia.
And to Rob, respect for your project; from a user perspective, if I wanna follow up something I've read on BBC news I'll just do it through google.. are you able to make links to other media relevant stories, rather than just Wiki? EG BBC headline recently "Karachi stock exhange falls 5%" when in fact every Asian stock exchange had fallen by over 5% that day, but I guess some editor was trying to make the point Pakistan was a dangerous unstable place without any mention at all of the worldwide stock slide.... THEN we need Muddy Boot skill to pick out what's really going on. The history of the Karachi stock exchange from Wiki ain't gonna cut it... a link to that morning's Reuters "Asian stocks slide" story is going to defeat the sensationalist editor's plans right there and then. Also an idea I had on Brian's overloaded link example - some sort of spidery engine which grabs all such wiki links on pages viewed by the user, collates the entries into a monthly "encyclopedia" pdf, delivered to your door with fake leatherette burgundy cover for $9.99... cheers :-) On 22/11/2007, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob, > > This is an interesting - and very subtle - enhancedment to the BBC news > pages. Took me a while to spot what was being added, so well was it done. > > I was wondering if you could modify it so that it could also add links to > Wikipedia articles by adding hypertext links within the text. > > For example, in the first one you post there is some text... > > "Scientists have discovered differences in the sensory areas of the brains > of people who develop migraines. > > They found a part of the cortex is thicker than in people who are free from > the debilitating headaches. > > What is not clear is whether the difference causes, or is the result of > migraine attacks. > > The Neurology study, by Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, suggests > the changes may make patients hyper-sensitive to pain in general. " > > IMHO, it would be enhanced by adding in Wikipedia links, like this: > > "Scientists have discovered differences in the sensory areas of the brains > of people who develop migraines. > > They found a part of the cortex is thicker than in people who are free from > the debilitating headaches. > > What is not clear is whether the difference causes, or is the result of > migraine attacks. > > The Neurology study, by Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston , suggests > the changes may make patients hyper-sensitive to pain in general. " > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 21/11/2007, robl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Just thought I'd accompany the latest post to the backstage blog > > ( > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/11/from_last_years_1.html) > > with some examples of muddyboots in action. For those of you who aren't > > aware of the project it's probably best to look at > > > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=more. > > Essentially we're attempting to use Wikipedia and other commons authored > > data sources to augment the meta-data around BBC news stories, this > > ultimately took the form of automated contextually relevant link > > recommendations based off data within Wikipedia and del.icio.us > > (although we have some other ideas about how this data could be used ...) > > > > It's still a prototype so it's not production ready by any means, there > > are still stories where we are unable to recommend links and there are > > others where ambiguity becomes a problem and identifying what context a > > story has can be difficult (although we have some ideas around using the > > disambiguation data within Wikipedia to improve this). > > > > Here are a few links to stories where I thought muddyboots added some > > interest and hopefully a little of that Wikipedia 'browse experience' : > > > > > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=page&id=646 > > > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=page&id=630 > > > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=page&id=622 > > > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=page&id=643 > > > > If you'd like to see how those recommendations were arrived at then each > > story has a 'View' action which can be used to get a breakdown of each > > stage of the muddyboots process, for example : > > > > > http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=view&id=622 > > > > It's worth noting we only keep the last 50 story submissions in the > > system, so these links will eventually 'age' out. > > > > (Disclaimer : I worked on the project) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rob > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial > list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > > > -- > Please email me back if you need any more help. > > Brian Butterworth > http://www.ukfree.tv - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
