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[VuFind-General] embarassing mistake with wikipedia bigoraphies

[Tonjes, C. (DCPL) <chr...@dc...>]

All,

How do we change the reference to an author entry in wikipedia? The one for Angela Johnson points to the murderer of that name.  It should point to the Children's author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Johnson_%28writer%29) instead

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Re: [VuFind-General] embarassing mistake with wikipedia bigoraphies

[Anoop A. <ano...@mn...>]

Chris
That link is generated by the system by basically using the author name, 
there is no 'intelligence' built-in currently say for example to check 
if there is more than one person listed on wikipedia by that name and 
then pull the one which we want for that item. Only option is to remove 
the wikipedia linking via the config file to avoid such confusion.

Cheers

On 12/20/2011 03:10 PM, Tonjes, Chris (DCPL) wrote:
> All,
>
> How do we change the reference to an author entry in wikipedia? The one for Angela Johnson points to the murderer of that name.  It should point to the Children's author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Johnson_%28writer%29) instead
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Re: [VuFind-General] embarassing mistake with wikipedia bigoraphies

[Steven H. <sj...@wm...>]

It may be worth patching VuFind to check for an (author) or (writer) 
page, and allow specific overrides. I imagine we'd still be missing 
perfection.

Re: [VuFind-General] embarassing mistake with wikipedia bigoraphies

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

This issue is mentioned in a JIRA ticket here:

http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-169

The ticket includes some code contributed by the National Library of Australia to improve the Wikipedia situation.  As you say, it's impossible to reach perfection, but this code offers some ideas for improving the situation.  Unfortunately, the NLA instance of VuFind is a very early fork and doesn't very closely resemble the trunk at this point.  If anybody has time to reconcile the code and submit a patch that works with more contemporary VuFind versions, that would be a big help!  Unfortunately, since we don't use the Wikipedia feature here at Villanova, I haven't been able to devote a lot of time to it myself.

thanks,
Demian

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> bigoraphies
> 
> It may be worth patching VuFind to check for an (author) or (writer)
> page, and allow specific overrides. I imagine we'd still be missing
> perfection.
> 
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