On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:30 PM, John Vandenberg<[email protected]> wrote: > And yet ... this is what every successful wiki does. Wikipedia is > extremely structured. The writers are not always expected to know the > structure; gnomes do the tidying up.
You must have an enormously different idea of extremely structured than I do. I once created software to extract lat/long from Wikitext on enwp and gave up when I got to the 100th or so distinct template invocation which did almost but not quite exactly the same thing. Go search the archives for some of my example bat-shit category linkage maps. It's extremely structures compared to complete anarchy, or perhaps "extremely structured" compared to the human body. It's not structured compared to normal sources of data. Not at all. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
