On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:39, Bernard Vatant <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this example actually raises the issue of the underlying Wikipedia > (bad) practice of putting two infoboxes in the same page for two different > subjects
I agree to some extent, but we have to accept the fact that Wikipedia articles are targeting human readers, and most features, even Infoboxes, are designed to make the layout nicer. Most editors and users don't care if DBpedia et al have a hard time extracting structured data. I found a lengthy Wikipedia discussion about this issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(infoboxes)#Dispute_over_single_articles_having_multiple_infoboxes AFAICT, there is no clear consensus, but the general opinion seems to be that multiple infoboxes should be avoided, but also have legitimate uses. I'm afraid we won't be able to change that. > Meanwhile ... if there is more than one infobox in a page, > take into account only the infobox of which title matches > the article title seems to me a good heuristic. Good idea! But we'd have to relax that rule somewhat. In it's strict form, that rule would drop between 5 and 30 percent (rough estimate) of all articles. Clicking through some more or less random results on http://dbpedia.neofonie.de/browse/ , I found several articles that wouldn't work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_United_F.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film) > I don't think it's a good idea to create an URI for the > additional subject, likely to clash with some other URIs. Correct. Maybe we could append the title of the infobox to the page title, creating URIs like http://dbpedia.org/resource/Orion_International/Orion VII Next Generation or http://dbpedia.org/resource/Orion_International#Orion VII Next Generation for the second infobox on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_International . Christopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
