Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki recommendations

2009-02-05 Thread Rolf Lampa
Lars Aronsson skrev: These are two recipies for how you can improve your language version of Wikipedia in an evening. But we don't have any cookbook to collect all such recipies, do we? Should we? These two recipies have now been used for the Swedish Wikipedia and we don't need to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, Have a look at this: http://www.omegawiki.org/Expression:Nederland This is structured data It can be shown in multiple languages. It does allow for interwiki links... It already works with MediaWiki ... So

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Marcus Buck
Gerard Meijssen hett schreven: Hoi, Have a look at this: http://www.omegawiki.org/Expression:Nederland This is structured data It can be shown in multiple languages. It does allow for interwiki links... It already works with MediaWiki ... So the question is, why re-invent the wheel ?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
Gerard Meijssen schreef: Hoi, Have a look at this: http://www.omegawiki.org/Expression:Nederland This is structured data It can be shown in multiple languages. It does allow for interwiki links... It already works with MediaWiki ... So the question is, why re-invent the wheel ? I think the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Dale
hmm ... my feeling is that it would be easier to adapt semantic wiki to include language aliasing than adapt omega wiki to be less dictionary centric in the context of a shared structured data site with _lossy_ defined community ontologies... But fundamentally there is no reason why an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Lars Aronsson
Michael Dale wrote: We really need a wikidata type site. A very easy and ugly workaround would be to store an image on Wikimedia Commons, containting the letters Barack Obama and having the filename President_of_USA.png. Next time change comes to the White House, the image is replaced with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I really like Semantic MediaWiki. But horses for courses. SMW is great for content where articles exist within one MediaWiki installation. It is TRULY project based. OmegaWiki is data that is indeed a separate database. The reason for a separate database is exactly because you do not want to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki recommendations

2009-02-02 Thread Marcus Buck
Lars Aronsson hett schreven: What is the best way to organize infobox templates for geographic places, the one used on the French, the Polish, or the Turkish Wikipedia? What are the most important features in use on other languages of Wikipedia, that my language is still missing? Are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki recommendations

2009-02-02 Thread Chad
Step 1 would be making interwiki transclusion not suck. Its been a long-standing back-burner project of mine. -Chad On Feb 2, 2009 8:05 PM, Marcus Buck w...@marcusbuck.org wrote: Lars Aronsson hett schreven: What is the best way to organize infobox templates for geographic places, the one