User:Cirilab

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== Knowledge Generation and Dissemination on Wikipedia ==

The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a non-profit organization with the goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world. Meeting this goal through the maintenance, development and distribution of free content, Wikimedia relies on public donations to run its wiki-based projects.

Hello Everyone

My name is Arnold Villeneuve and I am with Cirilab Inc. I started this page because of a disagreement with a Wikipedia Editor over the provision of Knowledge Maps (tm) and Knowledge Views (tm) of The Gutenberg Project books and Wikipedia pages within the External Links section of individual Wikipedia pages. My intention is to use this page to engage others in a discussion about what is knowledge and what constitutes an acceptable view of that knowledge from Wikipedia's perspective.

This page is also a call for your assistance. You tell us how we can improve the Knowledge Map and Knowledge Views so that the Wikipedia community is happy with them and we will gladly go about developing the technology so that it can be leveraged by The Gutenberg Project and Wikipedia, and ultimately you the Reader. Ultimately we would like to have a "button" within both of the above websites that would allow any Reader to generate a Knowledge Map or Knowledge View on their own in order to assit them in their research.

From a technical perspective our technology reads a document or collection of documents and generates a Knowledge View and Knowledge Map respectively of the information. The Knowledge Generation (TM) output is meant to provide the reader with information triage tools that allow them to quickly get the gist of the information and determine if it is applicable or important to them. The goal is to provide The Gutenberg Project and Wikipedia readers with additional knowledge generation and analysis views of the available information for free and at no charge to anyone. In fact, it was our intention to provide as a free service to The Gutenberg Project and Wikipedia Editors the generation of Knowledge Maps and Knowledge Views from within their own websites so they can make them available to the reader community.

The technology brings together in one place the combined value of The Gutenberg Project and Wikipedia information for the end user and provides a research and analysis tools that allows them to enhance their understanding of vast quantities of data.

Our initial approach to this was to select a few of the Top 100 Gutenberg Project authors and create a Knowledge Map of their writings and make it available on the Internet. The Knowledge Map Then we decided to see if we could create a Knowledge View of a Wikipedia page and we were successful. A Knowledge View is of great value in our opinion on large Wikipedia pages where there is a lot of content and the reader wants to quickly arrive at an overview of the page and also locate the information that is important to them. We believe that these functions and features are in keeping with the goals and vision of Wikipedia.

The initial demonstration link we provided was for Sir Winston Churchill's public domain writings from The Gutenberg Project as well as the related Wikipedia page. We created the following:

- a Knowledge Map of all of Sir Winston Churchill's writings - a Knowledge View of the Wikipedia web page for Sir Churchill - a Mind Map of the Wikipedia web page for Sir Churchill

We made these pages available to anyone at no charge on the Internet. We posted the links to these pages on the External Links section of Wikipedia.

However, a Wikipedia Editor did not feel the links were acceptable. That is his call and I respect his decision and the links remain removed from Sir Winston Churchill's page. So we created this page to allow the community to review the Knowledge Maps and Knowledge Views pages themselves to facilitate the forming of their own opinion, all with the hope that you will provide feedback in the open environment that Wikipedia provides for all to see and comment on.

We would like to know the following:

1. Are the Knowledge Interfaces (tm) provided helpful and usefull to you?

2. How should we change them so that they are acceptable to the Wikipedia organization and to the Wikipedia community?

3. Is the concept of placing some advertising links within these Knowledge Interfaces acceptable to the Wikipedia community IF it generates revenue for Wikipedia or should they be removed all together?

4. If our technology is used to produce the freely available Knowledge Interfaces to the community is it acceptable to have a link to our web site on produced Knowledge Maps and Views?

5. Would you like the ability to be able to generate a Knowledge Map / View of Gutenberg Project books or Wikipedia information available on their respective websites?

== Sir Winston Churchill Knowledge Interface Links ==

I created a Knowledge View of the actual Wikipedia Sir Winston Churchill page.

The we created a Mind Map of Sir Winston Churchill's Wikipedia page using MindManager.

Finally, we provided access to a Knowledge Map of Sir Winston Churchill's writings available from The Gutenberg Project.

Access to the Knowldge Maps and Knowledge View information is free to all users.

We welcome comments and suggestions from the Wikipedia Editors and Community so that we can improve upon what we are doing to the point that eventually all will find the Knowledge Generation(tm) that we are providing acceptable to all and of value. And of course, Free!

Thank you.

--Cirilab 19:44, 15 October 2006 (UTC)