https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34150
--- Comment #9 from badon <[email protected]> 2012-02-17 06:02:50 UTC --- No, because the list of serial numbers is only a list of serial numbers. It doesn't tell us anything about whether they have already been entered, nor if the entered data is correct. With the Special:RunQuery form I showed you, not only can you determine if the serial number exists, you can also verify or refute if other related semantic data matches some additional criteria. If it does not match, it can be brought to the attention of the person doing the data entry (colored red), and they can make a decision about whether the existing data is correct and their data is faulty, or if the existing data is faulty, and their data is correct. In that case, semi-automatic data entry is required, with a real person deciding what should be done, if anything. Special:RunQuery is extremely flexible in the goals it can achieve. I'm sure there are innumerable other cases that I cannot think of that can benefit from sophisticated usage of Special:RunQuery, including the ability to automatically or semi-automatically (to any degree) verify, create, and change wiki pages. One very powerful thing Special:RunQuery can do is grant the ability to share the results. For large quantities of data that need human scrutiny, a single administrator (or even hundreds of them) cannot possibly be expected to handle it with Data Transfer. With Special:RunQuery, links to "to do" lists can be placed at prominent locations in the wiki so the users can chip away at it one small task at a time. And the best part? Nobody needs to know anything technical at all about how MediaWiki, wiki code, SMW, and SF work. I have done some informal experiments with people who have only rudimentary computer literacy, and minimal English comprehension. All of them are able to make decisions about whether to click an auto-edit link, or not, based on a simple presentation of info from Special:RunQuery. For example, it takes decades for an expert to gain the skills and knowledge necessary to identify previously unknown types of coins. With SMW and Special:RunQuery, I can simply present images for comparison to users, and the user can essentially click "yes" or "no", depending on whether they match or not. In the first casual test I did with this, 2 previously unknown coin types were discovered almost immediately based on an expert-curated collection of serial numbers that were donated for testing purposes. All of the world's experts did not find these during the last 20 years, not even the expert who assembled and individually hand-selected each serial number in the data. Lupo's ImageAnnotator combined with SMW and Semantic Forms' Special:RunQuery are what made that discovery so effortless. Imagine what something like this could do for biology, astronomy, and on, and on! For the first time ever, uneducated amateurs could discover and identify new species faster than they're going extinct, simply using something as mundane as random people's vacation photographs. The collection of images, video, and audio at WikiMedia Commons might get more interesting if it were set up to be explored in an uncountable variety of ways by the many curious amateur researchers out there. I wonder what the Library of Congress has that nobody has taken a close look at before? Yaron, Special:RunQuery is as much of a panacea as I have ever personally experienced in any field or domain, in my lifetime. I'm thrilled to find it in semantic ontology, where it might make the notion of an "information age" seem passe, at a whole new level. Maybe this is hyperbole, but what if it isn't? It would be a shame if the full capabilities of Special:RunQuery were not brought to maturity. I hope you agree. -- 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
