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Wiki vs Wikification - What's the difference?

wiki | wikification |

As nouns the difference between wiki and wikification

is that wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it while wikification is the process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting html to wiki markup.

As a verb wiki

is to research on wikipedia or some similar wiki.

wiki

English

(wikipedia wiki)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

    • Derived terms

    * interwiki

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
    • To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
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  • To conduct research on a wiki.
  • To contribute to a wiki.
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  • To participate in the wiki-based production of.
  • * '>citation

    • Derived terms

    * wikify * wikiholic * wikilink * The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, ), (WikiLeaks), (Wikibooks), (Wikimedia Foundation).

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    wikification

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
  • (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) The automated process of adding links to Wikipedia to specific words and phrases in an arbitrary text (e.g. a news article).
  • * 2007 , Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, “Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge”, in Rosemary Luckin et al. (editors), Artificial Intelligence in Education , IOS Press, ISBN 978-1-58603-764-2, page 558:
    • Given a text or hypertext document, we define “text wikification'” as the task of automatically extracting the most important words and phrases in the document (keywords), and identifying for each such keyword the appropriate link to a Wikipedia article with detailed explanatory information about the corresponding keyphrase. ¶ Text ' wikification is performed in two steps.
  • * 2009 , Ian H. Witten, abstract of the presentation “Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base”, in Shlomo Geva et al. (editors), Focused Retrieval and Evaluation (INEX 2009 workshop proceedings), Springer (2010), ISBN 978-3-642-14555-1, page 3:
    • This task will introduce the process of “wikification'”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles – as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article.
  • * 2009–10 , Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Fariborz Mahmoudi, Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Meta-language Index Construction and Structural Queries'', in ''Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I , page 73:
    • 3 Query Wikification
    The process of automatically recognizing the topics mentioned in an unstructured text and linking them to the appropriate Wikipedia [6] articles is known as wikification'''''. Two ' Wikification method[s] have been proposed by now.

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