https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32426
--- Comment #8 from badon <[email protected]> 2012-01-04 22:37:45 UTC --- Hmm, maybe it could affect other namespaces. I'd have to think about it. Either way, I'm sure SF wouldn't be rarely used for files if it were designed for it. I have to use workarounds and more advanced wiki coding to get the expected results, and some of those don't work anymore for the current Semantic Forms 2.3.2 and MediaWiki 1.18. There are many applications where using Semantic Forms to organize images would be very helpful. In fact, as far as I know, it's THE BEST way to handle and organize images. Images and other visual media are notoriously hard to understand by machines. Using Semantic Forms allows a user to apply machine-readable semantic data to each image they upload. Instead of being a non-starter, it is now possible to easily make visual media searchable, and automatically organizable and browseable, thanks to Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms. Since everything else is searchable with common machine readable text-based search systems, I think visual media is the primary indispensable forte of Semantic MediaWiki (and Semantic Forms, for supplying the necessary additional data). Underestimating visual data as a rarely-used unusual application for SMW + SF would be a huge mistake. Lupo's ImageAnnotator takes this one step further, by allow human annotation of images with plain text that can be understood by simple software. If I can persuade Lupo to turn it into an extension, the next step would be to incorporate Semantic Forms into his popup annotation form, so the annotated data can be linked into SMW. Here's an example (login with Demo/test): http://www.coincompendium.com/w/index.php/Help:Contents#Image_annotator Right now, to add properties to an annotation, you have to do it manually, without the ease of Semantic Forms. Having LIA, SMW, and SF together would be visual media library nirvana. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
