Tag: wikipedia
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Automatic generation of Wikipedia-like articles with Perplexity Pages
Perplexity Pages seems to work best with predetermined structures rather than single prompts. Unlike traditional AI tools, Pages allows you to customise sections, add media, and expand outlines intentionally. This hands-on experiment demonstrates how the platform differs from standard question-answer AI interactions.
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STORM writes Wikipedia-like articles from scratch
STORM is an AI system that generates Wikipedia-like articles from internet searches. It uses multiple AI personas to create diverse perspectives on topics. While the generated content is comprehensive and well-structured, it tends to provide balanced, mainstream views. STORM offers potential for collaborative writing and knowledge curation in education and research.
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Weekly digest 42
in Digestactive reading, assessment validity, Canadian Physiotherapy Association, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, CSP, Data analysis, editors, Founders Lecture, information overload, luggage, manifesto, note-taking, OpenAI voice mode, promotion, promotion application, social work, validity, wikipedia, workshopA weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Weekly digest 31
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Wikipedia’s Chrome extension uses AI to fact-check the web
“The extension shows the user the original claim, links to relevant Wikipedia articles, a supporting citation, signals about the article’s quality, and an assessment of whether Wikipedia backs up the claim or not.” – Matthias Bastian
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Resource: Wikipedia Library
I recently made my 500th edit to a Wikimedia project, and unlocked access to the Wikipedia Library (see above), which I didn’t even know existed. The library is a collection of paywalled resources that are made available in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation. If your institution doesn’t have access to these resources, or you don’t…
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Podcast: Lex Fridman talks to Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia
I really enjoyed this conversation between Lex Fridman and Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of my favourite websites, not only for the obvious utility of having an enormously broad, diverse, and detailed encyclopedia, but for the community of people who create it.
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Tool: Wikiwand – a modern reader for Wikipedia
Wikiwand is a modern reader for web and mobile, that optimizes Wikipedia’s amazing content for a significantly improved reading experience. Fortunately, all articles on Wikipedia are released under a free license, which allows us to fetch Wikipedia articles and optimize them for maximum readability and enjoyment. At Wikiwand, we’re all about providing you with a…
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Chromium: changing the default keyword search
I just came across a pretty cool feature of Chromium…keyword searches. I know that this idea isn’t new, and now that I know about it, it’s clearly documented in the Google Chrome help pages, but I’ll put up some screenshots anyway. You begin by typing the URL of the site you’re going to (Chromium will…
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Faculty writing workshop
I just got back from an academic writing workshop at the Houwhoek Inn (their site needs some serious work). The point was to go there with an idea of an article you were going to write, spend 3 days writing it and getting feedback from the other participants and to end up with a draft…
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Wikipedia as a reference (part II)
Edit (25/09/08): Here’s an article discussing the use of Wikipedia by students. It’s interesting because of the subject but also because it gives some insight into the research method used to come up with the data. A few months ago I mentioned the fact that the use of Wikipedia as a source of credible information for…
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Knol: a unit of knowledge
http://knol.google.com/k/knol and Wikipedia article on Knol Knol, described as “a unit of knowledge” by the project’s creators, is a new initiative by Google that allows anyone to write an article, called a “knol”, about any topic. It’s a bit like Wikipedia in that respect but is limited to discrete articles with no links between them.…
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On Wikipedia as a reference
I’ve only just gotten around to reading the January 2008 edition of “Hands on”, the newsletter of the South Africa Society of Physiotherapy (SASP) and it was with interest that I noticed a citation by the editor (Editor’s note, page 2) for Wikipedia. Unfortunately, only the name of the website (Wikipedia.org) was mentioned and not…