I was silent on this thread mostly due to the following two points: 1. as mentioned several times, a standard for us to be considered must be free. Free as in "Everyone can get it without having to pay or register for it. I can give it to anyone legally without any restrictions." Free of patents. Free as in W3C.
2. I have taken another look at your page, and after starting to read it you simply loose me. You use so many terms without defining them. To give just a few examples: * "The NIF ontology is incorporated into the ontology for Wikitopics which shapes API designs." I do not know what the Wikitopics ontology is. The section beneath just lists a few keywords, but does not really explain it. I do not know what it means for ontologies to incorporate one another. I do not know what it means for an ontology to shape API designs. * "Wikipage naming conventions are used to name subobjects in an equally meaningful manner". Equally meaningful? To what? What does this even mean? You completely lost me here. * For the key wikipage transclusions, you do not explain what a "formatted topic presentation" is, a "formatted topic index", or a "formatted infobox". I think I understand the latter, but not the previous two. What are they? And if I indeed understand it right, are you saying that infoboxes have to be completely formatted in Wikidata, as Gregor has asked? In short, speaking for myself, I did not answer because I still fail to understand you. I hope that helps, Denny 2012/6/8 <[email protected]> > ** > > Hi all! > > Am a bit mystified here! about the radio-silence to this thread or, for > that matter, to the > [[meta:wikitopics]]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitopics>document > itself. > > From > wikipedia:<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinvent_the_wheel#Related_phrases> > > *Reinventing the square wheel* is the practice of unnecessarily > engineering artifacts that provide functionality already provided by > existing standard artifacts (reinventing the wheel) and ending up with a > worse result than the standard (a square > wheel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wheel>). > This is an anti-pattern <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern> which > occurs when the engineer is unaware or contemptuous of the standard > solution or does not understand the problem or the standard solution > sufficiently to avoid problems overcome by the standard. > > Thanks ! > > -jmc > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 2 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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