MovGP0 wrote:
> Therefore I suggest to let Wikipedia use only one big ontology, even 
> when Wikipedia itself gets separated into serval atomic Wikis. Further 
> it is a current design-goal to don't let users link to external 
> Ontologies because of this unsolved Versioning- and Trust-Problems. 
> Also, a centralized store solves Problems with translations and 
> Relations that are effecting other articles. I guess solving Versioning 
> and Trust will be really hard, so I don't want to touch this things. If 
> you have ideas let us hear.

Certainly one big centralized ontology is an interesting idea for
a family of semantic wikis, but I doubt if it is applicable to
Wikipedia.  Wikipedia *is* decentralized, and if an extention
requires changing this philosophy, then my guess is the extension
is going to be rejected rather than the philosophy changed.

I think one of the reasons why Wikipedia is so popular and has so
many contributors is that it is created bottom-up: add content
first, and then clean, organize, structure it.  It would be
interesting to see how ontologies emerge in a similar model.

As S Page already pointed out in an earlier post, one can already
predict some possible problems with creating a language-independent
ontology by examining the existing problems with categorization in
Wikipedia.  It is often difficult to reach a consensus even within
a given language edition, not to mention a "global" one.

Therefore, I think it is good to assume that each language version
of Wikipedia maintains its own ontology.  Maybe the ontologies will
converge in time due to some "soft" regulations, guidelines, etc.,
but they should not be coupled too tightly from the beginning.

Summing up, IMHO the future versions of SMW could optionally support
a centralized ontology approach too, but support for the decentralized
one should definitely be retained.

> Finally, I hope this scratch of my kind-of-chaotic toughs  is helpful to 
> you. 

Although I generally disagree with you, it was both interesting
and helpful nevertheless.  Thanks!

Regards,
Lukasz

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