Ed, we agree with you about the desirability of such visualization in
wikipedia. That's why several years ago we prototyped wibit:
projects.csail.mit.edu/wibit/
Wibit integrates exhibit into mediawiki via the Semantic Mediawiki (SMW)
framework. SMW is important because it separates out the *data* in
wiki pages as something that can be queried and manipulated. It would
be painful to try to extract data from human readable lists and
infoboxes (see the dbpedia project).
Unfrtunately, none of us had a good approach for convincing the
mediawiki foundation to make the changes needed to install our tools.
In an exciting development, the WikiData project was recently announced
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata). This essentially reflects a
commitment to move wikipedia towards semantic mediawiki. Once that is
done, incorporating wibit becomes much simpler.
Modulo one detail: our wibit extension is old, and relies on out of date
versions of the SMW package. It won't install on modern versions. If
anyone is interested in getting involved in some open source work to
modernize wibit, I'd be happy to discuss what needs to be done.
-David
On 5/23/2012 4:11 AM, edzob wrote:
Dear All,
No idea if this is the right place to ask the question / post the
wish ..
But the following.
I am following Simile Exhibit for a few years now and really love it.
(from a user perspective).
And I think that it's briljant feature should be used on wikipedia.
Why?
Because the world is getting more complex and overview pages on
wikipedia are getting better in gathering this complexity.
Examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_backup_services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue-tracking_systems
as you see in the examples. there is to many data (or category of
data) to represent in a default nice way, and there is no possibility
for the end-user to make a selection based on the data.. thus making
the data less valuable.
NB: these are "nerd" wikipedia entries, but my guess is that there
also other type of entries with the same "problem"
Request:
Do you guys/girls think it is possible to contact wikipedia or
mediawiki and try to team up and add Simile Exhibit as a standard
extention to these kind of pages, to enable the value of the data for
the end-users?
Looking forward to your thoughts on this.
Enjoy the sun.
Kind regards from the netherlands,
Edzo
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