mmm would it also be painful to try to load the tables in the examples in a exhibit page? if not, perhaps an extention for Chrome/Firefox would be an option to enrich those wikipedia pages.
or is this really far fetched? kind regards Edzo On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:37 PM, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<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 Modulo one detail: our wibit extension is old, and relies on out of date 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/List_of_online_backup_services> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Comparison_of_issue-tracking_**systems<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 >> >> -- "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S Truman mail: [email protected] - url: http://www.edzob.com - msn: [email protected] - skype: unamatrix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
