I am reachable at this email, [email protected].

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 1:53 PM David McDonell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ian, how do I/we get in touch with you directly?
>
> Thanks,
> --David
>
> [email protected]
>
>
> On Monday, August 1, 2016, Ian Seyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Full disclosure: I am the creator of the Project Grant application for
>> Arc.heolo.gy <http://arc.heolo.gy/>, located here:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Arc.heolo.gy
>>
>> I hope for this to be a general discussion on potential applications,
>> criticisms, questions, technological recommendations, and community
>> discussion about a graph representation of Wikipedia.
>>
>> Currently, the project has a live Neo4j Graph database built and parsed
>> from a download of the English language Wikipedia from April. I have
>> temporarily hosted the database instance both on my local machine and a
>> SoftLayer server provided under a temporary entrepreneur credit.
>>
>> My goal is two fold.
>> On the backend: refine the parsing algorithm (I am getting some incorrect
>> relationships in the database), automate the parsing so that it updates the
>> database frequently, expand language support, and perform semantic parsing
>> to weight individual relationships to strengthen the ability to filter out
>> extraneous relationships.
>> On the frontend: I have done little to zero work here beyond pure
>> conceptualization. I would hope to use an asynchronous front-end javascript
>> framework to build both a 2d (d3) and 3d (webGL) interface to be able to
>> explore the database with a high amount of control and ease.
>>
>> If any of you would like to access the database for exploration, please
>> contact me privately and I will give you credentials.
>>
>> Any recommendations on parsing, hosting, visualization, or otherwise are
>> appreciated. Endorsements and Volunteers are also highly appreciated!
>>
>> p.s. I am new to directly engaging with the Wiki community, and if I
>> committed some faux pas in starting this thread please let me know and I
>> will do my best to correct it.
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