Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

2016-08-04 Thread James Heilman
I wondering if Google would be willing to share that sort of data with us? That would be useful for certain languages definitely. J On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:48 PM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > At Wikimania in Gdansk someone from Google gave an interesting if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

2016-08-04 Thread WereSpielChequers
At Wikimania in Gdansk someone from Google gave an interesting if somewhat controversial presentation on search improvements this way. From my memory of the presentation - it was a few years ago; For several languages including some Indic ones, I think Bangla and Telegu, Google had listed the 500

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

2016-08-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, English Wikipedia is to be honest the least of my concerns.It is no different from any of the others. Like all other Wikipedias there are significantly more items with a label in the language of the project in Wikidata than the project has articles. So much so that the number of deleted