WikiPics: multilingual image search based on Wiki-mining

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Kinzler

  • Affiliations:
  • Wikimedia Deutschland, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
  • Year:
  • 2010

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This demonstration introduces WikiPics, a language-independent image search engine for Wikimedia Commons. Based on the multilingual thesaurus provided by WikiWord, WikiPics allows users to search and navigate Wikimedia Commons in their preferred language, even though images on Commons are annotated in English nearly exclusively.