Nathanael - could you present a use case or two for the kind of querying
you're talking about?

-Yaron


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey,
>
>
> > How likely will Wikipedia adopt SMW some time in the future?
> This won't be any time soon. There is some effort going on to get a
> stripped down version of SMW that does not have query capabilities onto
> commons though. Getting SMW on other WMF wiki's will depend a lot on the
> outcome of this.
>
>
> > Would it be best for me to develop this in the main SMW source code, a
> branch, or an extension?
> An extension, as we do not want to add any more code to SMW core.
>
> Cheers
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> On 22 April 2010 07:19, Nathanael Thompson <than4...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I'm interested in adding a feature to Semantic MediaWiki, and I'd like to
>> hear what the community thinks about it.  But first, I was wondering: How
>> likely will Wikipedia adopt SMW some time in the future?
>>
>> I'm interested in creating a parser that uses ontologies to help with
>> parsing.  For example, a functional property might be used like a regular
>> expression "?" and no upper cardinality restriction could be used like a
>> regular expression "*".  Also, tag info could be used to help the parser
>> know which property to use next while parsing.  Of course, the
>> implementation would be much more complicated than I can describe in an
>> email.  I think this type of parser would be useful because it will allow
>> people who have a bunch of data in text format to easily set up the grammar
>> for the data and integrate it into the SMW database.
>>
>> How well would this mesh with the rest of the work going on in SMW?  Would
>> it be best for me to develop this in the main SMW source code, a branch, or
>> an extension?  Is there anybody else who would like to collaborate with this
>> project?  Any other questions or comments would be appreciated.
>>
>> Nate
>>
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