Re: [Semediawiki-user] A crowdsourcing platform for articles based an SMW

[Michael T. <mic...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Ed Swing <Ed....@sa...> wrote:
> Here is something you might want to consider:
> You could create an automated process to harvest news articles (most are now available via RSS), and try to extract the relevant information. Then you could push this into the wiki automatically through the API.

But isn't the "crowdsourcing" aspect of this project motivated
precisely by the occasional failures of such automated processes, and
the need for human intervention? (Even Google News can't do it right
sometimes, and they have lots of smart programmers to throw at the
problem.) It seems to me you'd want to "push to the wiki" only if it
were first pushed to some workspace where the human-mediated workflow
process can kick in -- to inspect, and, where necessary, refine the
results of automation attempts.

I've played around a little with Mechanical Turk, trying some jobs.
Some of the work seems to be related to patching up bad metadata
extractions from news sites and blogs.

Anyway, I'd like to make use of some such framework myself, to more
efficiently process the Google News notifications I keep running on
various keyword combinations, and as a component when I start using
SMW for my wiki. I wouldn't mind hearing more about this.

Regards,
Michael Turner
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karsten Krumrück [mailto:kru...@my...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 2:47 PM
> To: Semantic MediaWiki users
> Subject: [Semediawiki-user] A crowdsourcing platform for articles based an SMW
>
> Hello everbody,
>
> my new project wikijournals is now online and localized (thanx to "translate" extension). You can find the project at http://wikijournals.info .
>
> Wikijournals is a crowdsourcing plattform for articles (from journals and newspapers). The aim is to create a central place for searching newspaper and journals articles. At the moment semantic metadata for articles (f.i.
> title, author, page, journal, persons, locations) can be collect here.
>
> There also exist a facebook page for this project (see
> https://www.facebook.com/wikijournals) and a blog (
> http://wikijournals.blogspot.de/) .
>
> This is an opensource project. You can find the source on github at http://swertschak.github.com/wikijournals-server/.
>
> I develop this project in my sparetime. It will be great, if anybody has comments, critics, questions or ideas for the project.
>
> best regards from Berlin
> Karsten
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Regards,
Michael Turner
Project Persephone
1-25-33 Takadanobaba
Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-0075
(+81) 90-5203-8682
tu...@pr...
http://www.projectpersephone.org/

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry