Hi Serge Wroclawski, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Zhijie Shen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi developers, > > Zhijie, > > Please do not cross post messages. Doing so does not make having a > reasonable conversation any easier, it makes having it nearly > impossible because the conversation is fragmented over several lists. > > > If you can remember, I've exchange emails with you to discuss the wiki > tag > > of OpenStreetMap two days ago. > > Do you have a URL to this conversation? > The previous conversation started there: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2011-February/021969.html > > > Now I have my quick solution, a Wikipedia > > entry crawler, to get more Wikipedia entries automatically. Here I am > eager > > to share with you, and wish it can be useful. The single Java class file > can > > be downloaded here. > > What is "here"? > > > The crawler implements the Sink interface of Osmosis, whose OSM XML file > > parsing functionality is leveraged. It extracts the name of entity (e.g., > > node, way) from the name tag (hence the entities without name are > omitted), > > uses it as the parameter to search the candidate Wikipedia entries by > > calling the Wikipedia API, and then judge which entry among the responded > > results is the true one for the corresponding entity. > > This is an interesting idea and we're all likely impressed by your > enthusiasm, but there's a huge, huge opportunity for mistakes with > this kind of import, and since you're talking about mucking with the > entire globe, it seems like we should take this conversation slowly. > Yes, I agree with you. This automatic import will definitely cause mistakes. Actually, I wrote this crawler for my research project. I'm eager for data and can tolerate some mistakes. As I wrote in my wiki page, I shared this just to inspire some ideas to improve the collaboration between OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. > > Where's your source code? > The source code is here: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~z-shen/WikiEntryCrawler.java. > > - Serge > -- Zhijie Shen School of Computing National University of Singapore <http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ez-shen/>
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