Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-02-05 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 2/4/09, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: For anyone interested in this topic, have a look at Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/ For anyone interested in freebasing, please revert as vandalism any attempt to remove this tacky infobox:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-02-04 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:52 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/01/27/extracting-wikipedia-infoboxes-values-from-text/ For anyone interested in this topic, have a look at Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/ which has populated most of their database

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-29 Thread Luna
I do think it's worth pointing out that literally every time I've mentioned dislike of infoboxes to non-WPians, the reply has been along the lines of Why not? They're AWESOME! I try to explain the objections, but usually the person is so set on the accessibility front that they can't see why

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-29 Thread Mark Gallagher
G'day Luna, I do think it's worth pointing out that literally every time I've mentioned dislike of infoboxes to non-WPians, the reply has been along the lines of Why not? They're AWESOME! I try to explain the objections, but usually the person is so set on the accessibility front that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-29 Thread Mark Gallagher
G'day Luna, I do think it's worth pointing out that literally every time I've mentioned dislike of infoboxes to non-WPians, the reply has been along the lines of Why not? They're AWESOME! I try to explain the objections, but usually the person is so set on the accessibility front that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-29 Thread Noah Salzman
On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Mark Gallagher wrote: I tend to find the infoboxes alternately annoying and silly or practical and awesome, depending on my frame of mind and purpose. One solution to the love/hate problem with infoboxes would be to add a hide/show preference... similar to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-29 Thread Luna
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Mark Gallagher m...@formonelane.netwrote: As a reader, it's cool to quickly find the national motto of Burundi or the height of Centrepoint Tower without having to read through paragraphs of text. I love infoboxes! But also as a reader, it's distracting to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-29 Thread Mark Wagner
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:02, Luna lunasan...@gmail.com wrote: Any band article with an infobox tends to attract small-time battles over the specific list of genres to include, too, I've noticed I've always thought the proper solution to this is to hardcode the genre line to read music --

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-29 Thread Alvaro GarcĂ­a
Hehe good one -- Alvaro On 29-01-2009, at 22:51, Mark Wagner carni...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:02, Luna lunasan...@gmail.com wrote: Any band article with an infobox tends to attract small-time battles over the specific list of genres to include, too, I've noticed

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-28 Thread geni
2009/1/28 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/01/27/extracting-wikipedia-infoboxes-values-from-text/ - d. I saw one of the talks about work in this area on youtube. Other than the slight problem that they intialy focused on rambot articles their aproach

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-28 Thread Jay Litwyn
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote in message news:fbad4e140901280652k19382f7cw7d6b217f61021...@mail.gmail.com... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/01/27/extracting-wikipedia-infoboxes-values-from-text/ (...) Maybe it can be taken as a request for information about bots already in use or

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-28 Thread geni
2009/1/28 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/1/28 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/01/27/extracting-wikipedia-infoboxes-values-from-text/ - d. I saw one of the talks about work in this area on youtube. Other than the slight problem that they intialy focused