Wikipedia is building an open-source search engine - but it's a little confusing

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-02-17

Summary:

"There have been rumblings in the Wikimedia community since last year that a better search engine is on the way and it looks like that’s true – but not everyone’s happy. In a $250,000 grant document from the Knight Foundation for media innovation, Wikipedia owner Wikimedia describes: 'Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia will democratize the discovery of media, news and information – it will make the Internet’s most relevant information more accessible and openly curated, and it will create an open data engine that’s completely free of commercial interests. Today, commercial search engines dominate search-engine use of the Internet, and they’re employing proprietary technologies to consolidate channels of access to the Internet’s knowledge and information. Their algorithms obscure the way the Internet’s information is collected and displayed. … Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia will be the Internet’s first transparent search engine, and the first one originated by the Wikimedia Foundation.' In the spirit of transparency, having been called out by the Wikipedia editor community for not involving them more in the grant process, the organization has tried to be more clear about what’s going on here ..."

Link:

http://thenextweb.com/google/2016/02/15/wikipedia-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-but-its-pretty-controversial/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.knight_foundation oa.funders oa.wikimedia oa.wikipedia oa.search oa.tools

Date tagged:

02/17/2016, 09:43

Date published:

02/17/2016, 04:43