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A feature Wikipedia could use is category intersection. Then you could view a list of pages that are in the "women", "novelists", and "Americans" categories, an
by salmonellaeater 13y ago
A feature Wikipedia could use is category intersection. Then you could view a list of pages that are in the "women", "novelists", and "Americans" categories, and no editor would have to curate that list. It's pretty easy to factually verify whether a page is about a woman, or a novelist. Taking human judgment out of the picture would eliminate many kinds of bias.
- droidist2 13y agoTrue. I think Wikipedia needs more advanced searching tools in general. For example basically every page on a city has its population and area. I should be able to narrow down cities with a certain population density (essentially creating my own temporary category) and then intersect with other categories or search those pages for a certain term in the article. The wealth of information is all there, it's a shame it's not easily filtered.
- teeja 13y agoAgreed, though enabling searches of such depth might create a considerable computing overhead. For example, there are lists of cities by population for most countries; if you could manually select a subgroup for -a- country and submit that as a search group along with other terms, might be within reach ... but to do that for -all- countries, imagine the complexity. Maybe when WP gets a few more million-core supercomputers. On the other hand, that would be a -great- project for some enterprising startup.
- btilly 13y agoThe computational complexity is nowhere near what you'd think if data is available in nicely categorized and indexed form. Any random SQL database does this kind of thing for a living.
- droidist2 13y agoWow, speak of the devil? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5623760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5623760