Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia external links and linked data

2010-03-30 Thread Edward Spodick
At 4:34 PM -0400 3/29/10, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Hmm, just because a given page is linked to from a wikipedia page, can one assume that the target of the link is about the same thing as the original page? I'm not sure how often this assumption would be violated? Well, it got violated on one

[CODE4LIB] wikipedia external links and linked data

2010-03-29 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: Wikipedia has 720 links to www.rockhall.com, which is a dream for any website, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch/www.rockhall.com I had no idea that Wikipedia provided a live search of external links. Up until

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia external links and linked data

2010-03-29 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Hmm, just because a given page is linked to from a wikipedia page, can one assume that the target of the link is about the same thing as the original page? I'm not sure how often this assumption would be violated? Ed Summers wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Lars Aronsson

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia external links and linked data

2010-03-29 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hmm, just because a given page is linked to from a wikipedia page, can one assume that the target of the link is about the same thing as the original page?   I'm not sure how often this assumption would be violated?

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia external links and linked data

2010-03-29 Thread Lars Aronsson
Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Hmm, just because a given page is linked to from a wikipedia page, can one assume that the target of the link is about the same thing as the original page? I'm not sure how often this assumption would be violated? You can encourage wikipedians to use a descriptive