On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/8/24 geni <geni...@gmail.com>: > >> In practice the end point of Natural language processing and large >> scale digitalisation is likely to be made to request computer >> generated custom articles. Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured >> entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping stone in this >> direction. > > > Yes. Rather a lot of conversations I have with random geeks are along > these lines. > > Basically, infoboxes = machine-readable data = good. So the way to go > there would be to make template plumbing give data more amenable to > chewing on. (Standardised names for template parameters, e.g. name, > photo.)
Surely the real information is in the semantic linkings? The concept of the wikilink is still in its infancy, I think. If linking can be optimised (by editors), it will be fascinating to see what relationships that throws up. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
