Comments on: Wikipedia Category Graph Generator http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2007/11/12/wikipedia-category-graph-generator/ ( to ) ? be : ! be; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:20:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: prashanthellina http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2007/11/12/wikipedia-category-graph-generator/#comment-432 prashanthellina Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:22:17 +0000 http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2007/11/12/wikipedia-category-graph-generator/#comment-432 David, I agree with you about Wikipedia article classfication being incorrect in some cases. However, I believe the data is still useful for semantic analysis experiments. David, I agree with you about Wikipedia article classfication being incorrect in some cases. However, I believe the data is still useful for semantic analysis experiments.

]]> By: David Gerard http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2007/11/12/wikipedia-category-graph-generator/#comment-413 David Gerard Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:40:12 +0000 http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2007/11/12/wikipedia-category-graph-generator/#comment-413 The important thing to remember about the en:wp category scheme is that it doesn't necessarily make sense, and there's no reason or authority to make it make sense. This is unfortunate ... There is talk of a more tag-like scheme for categorisation, where most subcategories would disappear to be replaced by a query on the intersection of two tags. But someone has to write the code, and show it won't slow the database to a crawl in practice. The important thing to remember about the en:wp category scheme is that it doesn’t necessarily make sense, and there’s no reason or authority to make it make sense. This is unfortunate …

There is talk of a more tag-like scheme for categorisation, where most subcategories would disappear to be replaced by a query on the intersection of two tags. But someone has to write the code, and show it won’t slow the database to a crawl in practice.

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