Wikipedia & Linterweb

15 December 2010

Wikiwix indexes tweeted web pages

Filed under: wikiwix — Matthieu @ 18:40

Dear all,

Wikiwix, the semantic search engine run by the web company Linterweb that, so far, had been giving only results out of the databases of the Wikimedia Foundation projects, indexes henceforth as well tweeted web pages.

The idea is very simple: when a tweet contains a link to a web page, the content of this web page gets indexed in real time, and the web page is displayed immediately amongst search results. Thus, Wikiwix indexes in real time about 150 pages per second, corresponding to the around 150 “Tweets with links” that are tweeted on average every second on Twitter.

Example: Let’s assume that you are searching for web pages relevant to the search term “Wikileaks”. The two last results (that is, the two last web pages to which a tweet refers to, and that are relevant to the search term “Wikileaks”) are displayed anti-chronologically (that is, the last tweeted pages are shown at the top of the result list, in a Last In First Out order) at the top of the result page, just over the classical results of the search, in a panel called “Results on the recent web”. For each result, the following information is provided:

  • Title: The first line of each result shows the title of the tweeted web page. Click this title to reach that web page.
  • Snippet: Below the title is a short description of the web page, sometimes an excerpt of text from the web page. This helps you to decide easily if the result really fits your search.
  • URL: The web address of the web page appears in green.
  • The amount of time passed, since the tweet of the page (in brackets). Unlike Google News, that indicates the time passed since indexing of the web page (sometimes hours after the publication of the page! That is, often slower than Wikiwix 🙂 ).


Then click on the “Plus” symbol, at the upper right corner of this result panel, to open a web page with more recent results (not only the two last ones of the list). You now see the whole list of results in the recent web with, for each result, the same information as just described (Title, Snippet, URL, Amount of time passed) and, in addition, the tweet, and a link to the tweet in which the web page has been posted.

Up til now, Wikiwix had been indexing fundamental articles, for a given subject, background articles of the various Wikimedia Foundation projects. Wikiwix will, from now on, index in addition the pages of the recent web. Both functionalities that, being used simultaneously, will complement each other wonderfully.
This new feature is already available in German, English, Spanish, French and Dutch.

We would be happy to read your comments, ideas, suggestions…

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 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;
  • 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 remains 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.

28 January 2010

Okawix USB flash drives, Wikipedia 0.7 special edition!

Filed under: wikiwix — Matthieu @ 18:51

As told in our last article, the version 0.7 of the English speaking Wikipedia is about to be released (this Wikipedia 0.7 is actually a filtered snapshot of the English speaking Wikipedia, a core set of around 31,000 articles, after a tough selection based on a combination of importance and quality of the articles; for more information, please read our last article). On the occasion of this long awaited event, we”ve decided to release a Ces sites Internet vous permettent de jouer a la roulette, au blackjack, au baccarat et a beaucoup d’autres jeux de tables, aux machines a sous , au video poker mais aussi au keno et aux autres jeux de tirage. Wikipedia 0.7 special edition of our Okawix USB flash drives.

These flash drives contain the version 0.7 of the English speaking Wikipedia, as well as the last version of Okawix (the free off-line Wikipedia reader that was developed by our firm, Linterweb). These flash drives will also benefit of a packaging specially designed for this occasion. The flash drives are actually black Kingston Data Traveler 8GB USB flash drives, available at the price of €19.99.

This collector”s edition will be limited to 200 pieces.

If you are interested, please do not hesitate to visit our virtual shop.

See you soon 🙂 Matthieu.

4 January 2010

My Wikiwix and OpenDemocracy

Filed under: wikiwix — Matthieu @ 18:56

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 remains 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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