User:Nicolas1981
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I am Raoul Nicolas, contributing since 2005, here and to 16 other wikipedias and wikimedia projects, in English, French, German, Japanese and 11 other languages. I also contribute to Wikitravel under the same name.
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I maintain the WP:ASE project, which is an analysis tool aimed at improving articles' quality. Please participate, it's fast and easy :-) And I released the Groovy source code under the GPL license !
I also maintain the WRS project, a search engine to use when looking for references.
I have a few other Wikipedia projects that I did not release yet:
- Articles You Want To Edit: A web application that gives you the articles you most likely want to edit. It will use articles metrics (including articles' history metrics). The user will choose to edit or not edit each proposed article, within the web application. The web application will collect the user's choice and use it to train a neural network.
- Peer Online-Reference Editing: to enhance the overall quality of references, I suggest separating the work of finding references from the work of enhancing them. The reference finder would just write <ref>http://someurl</ref>. The reference enhancer would then come, open the reference link, check that the source is authoritative, check that it indeed confirms the fact, and format it with a nice filled template. First benefit: adding a reference is faster, leading to more references. Second benefit: references are peer-reviewed, leading to better references quality. Not enhancing your own online references could become a guideline. The enhancers' work could be made faster with a web application to would automatically suggest the kind of template and some fields, such as the article's name, the author's name, or the access date.
- Wikilink Everything: If an article mentions Japan several times, then I feel that Japan should be wikilinked each time. Right now, the policy is to only wikilink the first occurrence. I feel this selection should be done by the Wikimedia software when rendering the page. Wikilinks are always useful, they explicit the sense behind a word with a reference to the concept.
- Semantic Wikipedia: Express human knowledge in RDF rather than in a natural language. RDF subjects are Semantic Wikipedia articles, RDF verbs are taken from a choice of existing or tailored vocabularies. This is the reverse approach to what DBpedia does.
- Semantic InterLanguage Checker: Yesterday, I spotted that in the Russian article about the "Satyrium" butterfly, there was an erroneous interlanguage link to the "Satyrium" article on the Lithuanian encyclopedia, which is about an orchid. Such errors could be spotted by a program that would "understand" linked articles and detect whether they really are about the same thing or not, using semantic information from DBpedia.
- Semantic InterLanguage Finder: In the wikipedias of two different languages, this program will find which articles are about the same thing and should be linked by interlanguage links. Sounds like science-fiction ? Actually, the hard work of semantic analysis has already been done by the DBpedia team, so the program will be mostly SPARQL requests. The results could be sent to IWLC for human verification and linkage.
- InterLanguage Geo Check: Checks that articles about a geographic topic in different languages have close coordinates, and spot potentially erroneous data. Some maths required for implementation.
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