Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia live monitor for identifying breaking news on Wikipedia

2015-07-20 Thread Thomas Steiner
Thanks, Pine and James. Just adding https://twitter.com/mediagalleries to the link collection, documented here http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4289. -- Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee, Google Inc. http://blog.tomayac.com, http://twitter.com/tomayac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia live monitor for identifying breaking news on Wikipedia

2015-07-19 Thread Scott Hale
Thanks, Pine, for flagging this up. I came across it a few years ago when I was thinking of doing something similar---not to detect news in my case, but simply to highlight what was popular in different language editions as a way to possibly increase multilingual editing/consumption. My research

[Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia live monitor for identifying breaking news on Wikipedia

2015-07-19 Thread Pine W
The Wikipedia live monitor tool was designed by Thomas Steiner http://research.google.com/pubs/author39477.html, an engineer of Google Germany, with the intention of identifying breaking news stories. This tool was mentioned in the *Signpost *in 2013

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia live monitor for identifying breaking news on Wikipedia

2015-07-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Scott Hale, 19/07/2015 11:30: what was popular in different language editions Do you know https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitrends/ ? Probably collaboration is accepted. as a way to possibly increase multilingual editing/consumption. Generally, a moment of high popularity of a subject (and

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia live monitor for identifying breaking news on Wikipedia

2015-07-19 Thread James Salsman
Pine wrote: ... The Wikipedia live monitor tool was designed by Thomas Steiner ... this is the first that I can recall seeing it If you like WLM you will love the Wikipedia Natural Disaster Monitor: http://disaster-monitor.herokuapp.com/ http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1268/paper15.pdf