Apparently Semantic MediaWiki is like Magic Pixie dust of happiness. But that's just what I hear. I say we should talk to the new Sys-admin about it.
Seth On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I glanced at this during the activity discussion, thinking about keeping > the activity lists. It seemed to me that this had two issues: one is that > the metadata is searchable but not easily includable on a given page; and > the other is the learning curve, given that extra semantics must be > rigorously defined. I suspect that for a general-public wiki, it would be > more trouble than it was worth. > > I also posted a link to a similar concept, WikiDB or something, which > seemed to be more appropriate technology on both the above counts, but which > is unfortunately not a mature program, more like alpha stage. Oh well. > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, drew einhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Has there been any discussion of this? > > > > > > Just this list of sites using Semantic MediaWiki is enough to spark > > some > > > interest. > > > > > > http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Sites_using_Semantic_MediaWiki > > > > It looks promising for what the Wiki reorganizers are currently trying > > to do. > > > > "While articles in MediaWiki are just plain texts, SMW allows users to > > add structured data, comparable to the data one would usually store in > > a database. SMW uses the fact that such data is already contained in > > many articles: users just need to "mark" the according places so that > > the system can extract the relevant data without "understanding" the > > rest of the text. With this information, SMW can help to search, > > organise, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content." > > > > It would be particularly good if integrated into the templates. > > > > > -- > > > Drew Einhorn > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Library mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Edward Cherlin > > End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business > > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay > > _______________________________________________ > > Library mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > >
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