You may also be interestd in the history of other sources for structured data such as books on wikisource* and definitions on wiktionary**.
SJ * visit en.wikisource.org and click on 'random book' for an example ** some of these ideas were spun off into omegawiki On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Julia Kasmire <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wikipedia Mailing list, > > I am doing some research on the increasing structure in information > transmission and I am very interested to know some information on the > history and growth of infoboxes, or other machine searchable extracted > information, in wikipedia. > > Could you tell me, or tell me how to find, the following: > the date of the first infobox on wikipedia? > the rate of increase in infoboxes, or at least the number of infoboxes > at several points in time and the date that number was measured? > > The discussion page "How many Wikipedia articles covered by DBpedia?" > gives two such infobox data points and one approximate date, but I want > to flesh out the history a bit. > > Thank you very much in advance, and please feel free to ask me if there > is any more information I can provide you with! > > Kind regards, > > Julia Kasmire > PhD Researcher > TU Delft > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
