Find Related Wikipedia Content with Similpedia

Wikipedia is by far one of the most useful sites on the Web - at least to me. That's why I am looking forward to seeing what Jimmy Wales and crew come up with when they launch their new search engine. In the meantime, there is a new Wikipedia tool, however, that has caught my attention - Similpedia.

Similpedia takes any links and shows you related content from Wikipedia. It's extremely handy if you want to drill down into a subject. Even better, they give you a bookmarklet that makes this all a snap to use from any site. You can also add a contextual widget to your site that pulls up related content for your readers and even track results via RSS. Bigger plans are in the works - a site for news and blogs called Similario.

This is a taste of what can be done with Wikipedia's vast stores of data. I would love to see Wikimedia take this to the next level with a robust API.

Comments

[Michael Martine]

Heh... there's already a search engine for Wikipedia. It's called Google.

[Jess]

Pretty interesting site, thanks!

[MarcV]

Michael is right about Google. However, in my opinion, this site provides a set of tools that look very attractive for us bloggers. Seems like we can augment the "content" presented to our readers automatically (with very little intervention) and with a pretty fair amount of relevancy.
Thanks Steve. Great find.
Blog on!
--Marc V.

[Steve Dragoo]

Steve, thanks for yet another useful post...

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