Archive for July, 2009

Building An Intranet Knowledge Base while Leveraging on Wikipedia

Friday, July 17th, 2009

There’s an interesting discussion on Slashdot over this question of
“Integrating Wikipedia With a Local Intranet Wiki”. Something that some of us have come across.
Some of the proposed solutions are:

a. Complete dump of Wikipedia and add your own stuff to it
b. Build a simple proxy server that rewrites wikipedia content to include a header of your local content
c. IFRAME? Intelligent proxy/page modification?
d. Browser extension somewhere that lets users add their own comments to any arbitrary web page
e. Create an internal wiki, and wherever relevent you link to the wikipedia article
f. Its probably not going to work because “You are trying to force a technical solution on a social problem.”

Someone also posted an interesting conceptual paper:
http://www.galois.com/files/MLwiki_Datasheet.pdf

Pretty interesting ideas. What are the pros and cons of the above suggestions? Any ideas on top of those?

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1304239

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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Just a figure that I want to keep in my head.

Taking a step forward

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Progress forward, no one says he does not seek.
Yet, does he know what it actually is?
Money? Status? Power? Love? Peace?
Maybe one should look inward
To understand exactly what is it that is missed.

Not many can bare to look in the mirror,
To see themselves in their stark contour.
For in most parts of our life’s grand tour,
We have spent building up our own little pretty manor.

But it is from my personal observation,
that looking within is a necessary action.
Not to tear it down our years of construction,
But to understand its flaws and limitations.

Only then will things be set in motion,
for that step in the forward direction.
The things that you normally do without much consideration
Now is guided by almost a double vision