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Wikipedia is already being used across the Web as a form of subject identification & disambiguation, in a grassroots way:

Wikipedia is already being used across the Web as a form of subject identification & disambiguation, in a grassroots way: in the form of hyperlinks embedded by authors in blog posts, news articles, music reviews, etc everywhere!

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These days, by convention, when you link to Wikipedia from your webpage, more than saying “go and have a look at this other page”, you are more likely giving a definition to a concept referred to in your content…

These days, by convention, when you link to Wikipedia from your webpage, more than saying “go and have a look at this other page”, you are more likely giving a definition to a concept referred to in your content… Also used in this way for specific domains are Internet Movie Database (for films & TV programmes), MySpace (for bands), Amazon (for books), etc

For general knowledge, though, Wikipedia is becoming the Web’s defacto controlled vocabulary

And DBpedia has become the Semantic Web’s defacto source of shared URIs for Things

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