I do think it's worth pointing out that literally every time I've mentioned dislike of infoboxes to non-WPians, the reply has been along the lines of "Why not? They're AWESOME!" I try to explain the objections, but usually the person is so set on the accessibility front that they can't see why anyone would want to avoid the boxes.
It's not just bots that want information in an easily parsed format. -Luna On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Carcharoth <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:52 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/01/27/extracting-wikipedia-infoboxes-values-from-text/ > > Some infoboxes are designed for that sort of thing, some aren't. Some > have footnotes for example, and lots of flexibility, which makes it > harder, but not impossible, to parse the data. And some projects (for > good reason) still virulently reject infoboxes, mainly because people > who don't understand a particular subject try to force simplified > statements (i.e. sentences, not words or numbers) inside an infobox, > and lose nuance and context in the process, devaluing the article as a > whole (reading the full text is ultimately more educational). > > And not all such data is in infoboxes: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Metadata > > Something I tried to improve, which still needs expansion and TLC. > > Some areas of data are in separate templates (not infobox templates) > and some are in categories. > > I'd like to add some of the data-heavy infoboxes to that list, like > the ones in maths, physics, astronomy, geography, geology and > chemistry, and the other 'hard' sciences. Are any of those infoboxes > organised for the extraction of data the way the geographical co-ords > templates are? > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
