Why Wikipedia is not enough

author: Hermann Maurer, Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM), Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology
published: May 28, 2012,   recorded: May 2012,   views: 271
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0:00 Why Wikipedia is not enough
1:09 Wikipedia: Valuable resource to get up-to-date information
1:57 Example 1: German language Wikipedia
5:03 Example 2: Wikipedia Server Serbia
5:49 The majority of topics on the Serbian Wikipedia does not deal with Serbia
6:17 Serbia-Forum
6:43 Serbia-Forum in English
7:08 Example 3: Slovenia
9:50 The Slovenian Wikipedia (Slovenska Wikipedija)
10:20 Some important points of regional servers: Information
14:09 Information should be integrated
19:11 Information must be searchable by metadata and other criteria
19:55 Ludwig Boltzmann
20:53 There is often no absolute truth
25:03 Updating is dangerous
27:34 Burgtheater Wien
28:46 In electronic corpora there is no need to restrict length
30:23 Web Books
32:10 Clicking at book opens it
32:38 This screen-shot shows some bookmarks
33:37 When choosing a single page it can be zoomed and moved around arbitrarily
33:56 Bookmark and Link creation
33:59 Full view of Web Book with other features
34:11 Clicking here gives panoramic view in our days
34:50 Panoramic picture, zoomable and moveable
35:11 ... or general information on the village today
35:59 Here is another example of what we consider particularly important: "time travel"
36:44 The link leads directly to the correct page in a historic book
37:24 This appears on mouse-over and a click leads to the correct page
37:29 Finds exactly the description
38:54 Summarizing
39:59 Publisher cooperate with the Web Book concept
40:09 The feeling of reading a book is enhanced
40:12 An attempt to print out a page of a book that is still for sale produces an order form or link to a shop
40:40 KINDLE (as contrast)
41:04 Of course regional forums must also contain: Videoclips
41:12 Samples of music
41:24 Zooming of pictures (1)
41:26 Zooming of pictures (2)
41:28 Regional forums must also provide ...
41:33 Regional Forums will florish if ...
42:36 Regional servers might be a test field for what I consider a grand vision
42:39 Now possibly a live demo or a bit about history of WWW?
42:45 It all started with interactive Videotex in Europe
43:21 Idea proposed by Sam Fedida, British Telecom, in 1976
43:29 Set of PRESTEL symbols
43:43 Start with simple mosaic graphics
43:53 Main usage
45:28 Some versions of PRESTEL used in most European and some other countries in the eighties
45:33 Japan with its "Captain" system or Canada‘s Telidon
45:53 Germany tried to score with better graphics
46:35 France bet on using alphabetic keyboard ("Teletel")
47:37 In Austria Maurer/ Posch decided to develop as decoder a microcomputer "MUPID"
49:56 50.000 MUPIDs produced in Austria 82-89
50:52 Networked X-mas greetings in 1986
50:57 Electronic networked encyclopaedia - links via numbers
51:46 Remote chess, synchronous or not, with chat
52:27 Multi-person game to explore planet AC in 1985
53:29 Networked learning already available in 1986
53:46 Three parallel networked multimedia undertakings after Videotex

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In this talk it is argued that although Wikipedia(s) are valuable resources, additional material on so-called "forum-servers" or "focus-servers" is needed: Wikipedia(s) often do not go deep enough; authors of contributions are not (easily) identifieable; controversial topics cannot be treated in separate contributions; searching and navigation are not good enough; preservation of past information is not supported; the concept of Web Books is not supported, and other technical features are missing. To overcome those problems a new generation of server-software has been developed that allows to concentrate on a particular region or topic. We present some examples to demonstrate how to deal with the problems mentioned. It is also shown that much research is still necessary to improve on what has been obtained so far.

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Comment1 Luigi, September 1, 2012 at 10:45 p.m.:

why?!? why not impoving wikipedia pages instead (in all the languages that you want)?!?

The only (unconfessed) reason that I can imagine is that you want to keep control of your servers... The main reason of the success of wikipedia is that they trusted the people around the world...

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