Wikipedia & Linterweb

18 January 2010

Wikimedia Poland goes for our search engine Wikiwix

Filed under: wikiwix — Matthieu @ 19:23

Dear all!

If you are used to read this blog, you should already be aware of Wikiwix, the semantic search engine run by the web company Linterweb, that gives only results out of the databases of the various Wikimedia Foundation projects.
There are various possibilities to perform a search with our search engine Wikiwix.
The easiest way is to go at the following address: http://www.wikiwix.com/. This is indeed the main page of Wikiwix’ website.
You can also find Wikiwix on pages of several websites, that we would like to thank for the confidence that they have placed in us and Wikiwix.
Thus, we feel for instance especially honoured by the confidence that many Wikipedia Communities have placed in us, such as in particular the French speaking Wikipedia, that added Wikiwix onto the list of the available search engines, on their Search Wikipedia page.
We feel also delighted with the trust of several local Wikimedia associations.
Indeed, the French Wikimedia association has also elected Wikiwix as its engine for the search of Wikipedia articles and Wikimedia Commons pictures, as you may see on its search page.
Then, the Polish Wikimedia association has also recently selected Wikiwix as its engine for the search of Wikipedia articles and Wikimedia Commons pictures.
That not only the French Wikimedia association but also the Polish Wikimedia association trust us, makes us particularly proud and happy, and encourage us to pursue our work and to improve Wikiwix further.
If you would like to learn more about Wikiwix, we encourage you to visit and read our blog.

We sincerely hope that you too will give it a try, and that you’ll really enjoy your time with Wikiwix!

Yours sincerely , Matthieu.

Linterweb is a web company that, for now several years, has been developing various Wikipedia oriented programs, including:

  • Wikiwix, a semantic web search engine that gives only results out of the databases of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects; My Wikiwix, your own search engine for your own website; wikiwix.mobi, a mobile version of Wikiwix;
  • Okawix, the offline Wikipedia browser free of copyrights and free of charge that allows you to read offline archives of the articles of the various Wikimedia Foundation projects, as well as archives of your own website; those archives are available for downlotad on the website of Okawix;
  • a DVD of around 2000 articles from the English speaking Wikipedia; a USB flash drive that contains the version 0.7 of the English speaking Wikipedia;
  • a program that archives the external web pages of the Wikipedia articles (that is, the web pages outside Wikipedia but linked from a Wikipedia article), so that their content remain available and that those external links don’t get broken; this program is used automatically, in particular, for all external links of the French speaking Wikipedia.
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4 January 2010

My Wikiwix and OpenDemocracy

Filed under: webmasteur, wikiwix — Matthieu @ 12:35

Dear all!

Recently, our firm, Linterweb, had the pleasure to introduce you its new service, My Wikiwix.
You already know Wikiwix, the semantic search engine run by the web company Linterweb that gives only results out of the databases of the various Wikimedia Foundation projects.
My Wikiwix, as you may know, is a search engine as well.
The difference with Wikiwix is just that you can run My Wikiwix on your own personal website.
My Wikiwix uses the technologies initially developed for the searches on the Wikimedia projects with Wikiwix.
The user interface is already available in English, French and German, and will in the future be available also in Spanish.
Well, lately, a lot has happened, and we can now announce that My Wikiwix is fully available and usable, and that the famous website OpenDemocracy decided to add the My Wikiwix search box on its start page.
You, too, can integrate My Wikiwix on your website and freely enjoy the use of our semantic search engine.
All you have to do is to follow the instructions on this page: http://my.wikiwix.com/.
If you would like to learn more about My Wikiwix, we encourage you to visit and read our blog, especially the article “My Wikiwix, the search engine that will fit you“.

Just give it a try!

We hope that you will enjoy your time with My Wikiwix, and we wish you a Happy New Year!

Yours sincerely , Matthieu.

Linterweb is a web company that, for now several years, has been developing various Wikipedia oriented programs, including:

  • Wikiwix, a semantic web search engine that gives only results out of the databases of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects; My Wikiwix, your own search engine for your own website; wikiwix.mobi, a mobile version of Wikiwix;
  • Okawix, the offline Wikipedia browser free of copyrights and free of charge that allows you to read offline archives of the articles of the various Wikimedia Foundation projects, as well as archives of your own website; those archives are available for download on the website of Okawix;
  • a DVD of around 2000 articles from the English speaking Wikipedia; a USB flash drive that contains the version 0.7 of the English speaking Wikipedia;
  • a program that archives the external web pages of the Wikipedia articles (that is, the web pages outside Wikipedia but linked from a Wikipedia article), so that their content remain available and that those external links don’t get broken; this program is used automatically, in particular, for all external links of the French speaking Wikipedia.
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16 December 2009

My Wikiwix, the search engine that will fit you.

Filed under: webmasteur, wikiwix — Matthieu @ 13:00

You already know Wikiwix, the search engine run by the web company Linterweb that gives only results out of the databases of the Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Today, Linterweb is pleased to introduce you My Wikiwix. My Wikiwix, by using the technologies initially developed for the searches on the Wikimedia projects with Wikiwix, allows you to have a search engine for your own website.

To perform searches on your website, My Wikiwix, like Wikiwix, uses semantic search technologies, in order to generate more relevant results.

In addition, My Wikiwix allows you some control over the way in which the results are displayed by letting you create up to 255 categories ; you can then specify to which category a particular page belongs to, by the introduction of an invisible meta tag in the source code of this web page. You can also directly categorize all together a whole set of web pages whose URL complies with a particular pattern. Thereafter, with just one click, a search can be restricted to the pages of a particular category.

To set up your My Wikiwix search engine, you must first sign up on this web page: http://my.wikiwix.com/index.php.

Next, with the email address and the password that you have given for the registration, you’ll be able to log in and access to the creation form that allows you to ask for the set up of your My Wikiwix search engine.

Once your My Wikiwix search engine has been set up by our team, to connect you on this same web page will allow you to access the search engine management tools.

My Wikiwix is part of a set of web applications programmed by Linterweb, including the research engine Wikiwix, that performs its search exclusively amongst the articles of the Wikimedia foundation, the Wikipedia offline browser Okawix, and a DVD of around 2000 articles from the English speaking Wikipedia.

17 November 2009

wikiwix.mobi, a search engine in your pocket.

Filed under: wikiwix — Matthieu @ 18:05

I use Wikipedia quite a lot. Well, I mean… really a lot! Most of the time I can survive without Wikipedia. But I may sometimes feel as well quite disarmed without it. I need it a lot for my work, I use it also just for my own pleasure… Then I find it of course very convenient to be able to browse Wikipedia on my mobile phone. Anywhere, anytime…

Well, people like me may be interested by the fact that our company, Linterweb, has just released a mobile version of its semantic Wikipedia search engine, Wikiwix.

It is quite simply called wikiwix.mobi.

Like Wikiwix, it gives only results out of Wikipedia.

This mobile version is available at the address http://wikiwix.mobi/. Just give it a try!

So, we hope you will enjoy wikiwix.mobi, and of course enjoy Wikipedia,

Take care, Matthieu.


Linterweb is a web company that, for now several years, has been developing various Wikipedia oriented programs, including:

  • Wikiwix, a semantic web search engine that gives only results out of the databases of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects; My Wikiwix, your own search engine for your own website; wikiwix.mobi, a mobile version of Wikiwix;
  • Okawix, the offline Wikipedia browser free of copyrights and free of charge that allows you to read offline the articles of the various Wikimedia Foundation projects, as well as archives of your own website;
  • a DVD of around 2000 articles from the English speaking Wikipedia; a USB flash drive that contains the version 0.7 of the English speaking Wikipedia;
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3 August 2009

An article of MakeUseOf.com about Wikiwix!!

Filed under: wikiwix — Matthieu @ 10:50

We’re very grateful to Abhijeet and Kaly from MakeUseOf.com for their nice review of our application Wikiwix on their excellent website. They write that Wikiwix is the “Ultimate Wikipedia Search Engine”. Isn’t that cool!?

(let’s just note that Wikiwix allows searches in all Wikipedia languages, that is around 253 languages)

Again thank you very, very, very much to MakeUseOf.com!

Matthieu.

30 July 2009

Wikiwix’s Atlas: Unity makes it stronger.

Filed under: wikiwix — Matthieu @ 4:32

One for all, all for one. The combination of Google Maps, Wikipedia, and Wikiwix is what the firm Linterweb brings you with Atlas.

Atlas uses Wikiwix, the semantic search engine programmed by Linterweb, to enhance Google Maps with resources extracted from Wikipedia, the well known on-line encyclopaedia.

Capture d\'écran d\'Atlas en action.

Whether you use it for browsing around Google Maps, or for preparing for your business or pleasure visit, you’ll find out that Atlas is a very worthy companion and figure out two main ways to use its functionality.

Let’s assume, for instance, that you perform on Wikiwix a search on Rouen, a city in Normandy, in France. Wikiwix sends you back a list of results ranked according to their estimated relevance. In our example, the result at the top of the list is the link to the English language article about Rouen. For each result, Wikiwix provides you some more related information (in particular, Associated categories, Close places, Map). By clicking on Map, you’re then directed to the so called Atlas functionality of Wikiwix: a Google map of Rouen appears and you will notice some blue and red location pins, also called markers. If you click on one of the pins, a small window opens, containing additional Wikipedia information about the location. For instance, in our example, if you click on the red marker in the middle of the map of Rouen, the small window will display information about Rouen stemming from the Wikipedia, as well as a thumbnail picture.

You can also access this enhanced map by going directly to Atlas and entering a place name into the search box.

Atlas, as well as Wikiwix, are available in many languages.

Just give it a try, and please don’t hesitate to send us your feedback, it is valued and will be considered as we work to improve Atlas.

Thanks in advance, Matthieu.

4 July 2009

More about the timelines

Filed under: timeline — Matthieu @ 16:16

Hey everybody,

Since the end of May, the firm Linterweb offers tools that allow a new innovative way of visualizing in the shape of timelines information of the Wikipedia.

So far, you will find two useful types of timelines.
- the first one, the generalist timeline, shows the most important personalities of a given time on a timeline at the scale of about two centuries. The personalities are represented by a segment beginning at the birth date of the personality, up to his death date. Above the segment is written the name of the personality. You can easily scroll on the timeline with the mouse. If you click on the name of any personality, a tooltip pops up, which displays a small picture of the personality, as well as the beginning of the Wikipedia biography. By, within this tooltip, clicking on the name of the personality, you open his Wikipedia article. And by clicking on another link you focus the timeline on the time period of the personality.
In the upper right corner of the web page, a small form allows to reach directly the time period for a given year or personality.
- The second type of timeline, instead of displaying only information from the Wikipedia, allows to combine it with information of Wikinews. There are actually two timelines. The first one, at the scale of a few (ten) days and focused, by default, on the current date, displays the events found in Wikinews for these days. The second timeline is actually made of three timelines. The three are on a scale of about 50 years. The three show events that occurred the same day as the day of today (by default ; you can of course select another date) throughout those 50 years. The first of the three timelines shows the births that occurred the same day, the second timeline deals with the deaths, and the third one with the important events.
A JavaScript tag is available too, that you can copy-paste onto your own website, so that you can display these timelines on your website.

These two tools, already available free of use on the website of the web company Linterweb, are part of a set of web applications programmed by Linterweb, including a research engine that performs its search exclusively amongst the articles of the Wikimedia foundation, as well as a DVD of around 2000 articles from the English speaking Wikipedia.

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