Reluctant Wikipedia Lifts Lid On $2.5M Internet Search Engine Project (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by BeauHD on Saturday February 13, 2016 @11:42AM from the reluctantly-crouched-at-the-starting-line dept.

The Wikimedia Foundation has finally disclosed details of its controversial Knowledge Engine grant -- and it confirms that Wikipedia is getting seriously into search, despite Jimmy Wales' categorical denial that WMF is "doing a Google." After a Wikipedia signpost article, and coverage at El Reg this week, the WMF caved and posted the Knight Foundation's approval of the $250,000 grant. The grant provides seed money for stage one of the Knowledge Engine, described as "a system for discovering reliable and trustworthy information on the Internet." The discovery stage includes an exploration of prototypes of future versions of Wikipedia.org which are "open channels" rather than an encyclopedia, analyzing the query-to-content path, and embedding the Wikipedia Knowledge Engine "via carriers and Original Equipment Manufacturers."

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Hopefully will end self-referencing by im_thatoneguy · 2016-02-13 11:52 · Score: 4, Interesting

One of Wikipedia's largest problems is that it cites things which cite things which end up citing Wikipedia if you go far enough back.
It would be great to have Wikipedia akin to Wolfram Alpha but less math and more about factual primary sources.