Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Wiki Brain

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For any sort of questions Giuseppe.Zaccaria.1993 (talk) 12:44, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

1. Giuseppe.Zaccaria.1993 (talk) 12:44, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Dear Wikipedia,

I am Giuseppe (Joseph) Zaccaria (Zachariah), an Italian citizen resident in Iran (my mom is Iranian) born in 19 October 1993, I study mathematical physics in the third year of high school in an Italian school in Tehran. I speak 3 languages fluently (English, Italian, Persian) and have also studied for 3 years Latin and 1 year Spanish. My dream has always been to become a scientist in NASA (although the odds for that are overwhelmingly low), since I love space and anything related to that. I really hope to be able to come to the US, possibly to study.

Now, I use Wikipedia constantly, especially for school projects and studies, and I must say BRAVO!! i think all the students of the world are more than glad to have a site in which you can find almost anything. Nevertheless, each time i have had a question (the answer of which might have been just a few words), Wikipedia gave me a huge array of articles that it thought could be related to what I was looking for, and i must say that that is always a bit disappointing. So, i thought why not add another part in Wikipedia (you know, like wikibooks...) called something like Wikibrain, or WikiAnswers..., where you write a question, and the program automatically searches the articles it thinks might be related to the question, and then finds the answer, without giving you the option to go and look for the answer in the articles yourself. I mean a new program capable of relating words given from the user (i mean the words that are in the question) to other words already existing in the domain (pretty much what it already is doing), and then finding the words in the article (found in the domain) which are most likely related to the primary words that formed the question (given from the user). So, when you ask "distance between Paris and Rome?" the program would automatically find the answer in its articles and say "500 kilometers" (of course this is just an example, I'm sure that if you work on it, it will resolve more complex questions). I am sure that something like this would be a huge step in improving Wikipedia, so I really hope that my idea has interested you and that i might help you in some way. I am really looking forward to receive an answer from you,

Yours sincerely,

Joseph Zachariah

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