Platonides wrote:
> Both of you seem to think that wikipedia editors would start placing
> RDF/Microdata interleaved with wiki markup.
> I don't think that could ever happen. The "direct markup" would be
> inserted into infoboxes (which are themselves wikitext, although they
> can get quite complex).

Just to be clear - I'm not trying to propose that wikipedia editors
should start writing wiki markup interleaved with RDFa/Microdata. Quite
the opposite - I think that allowing contributors to hand author RDFa or
Microdata would be a very bad idea for Wikipedia. However, it seems like
what you are saying is that interleaving HTML like this is not possible
anyway - which is a good thing, IMHO.

> Perhaps we shouldn't provide the full power of RDF or Microdata yet,
> and provide instead a extension able to handle a subset, using one or
> another.

XHTML1+RDFa is certainly ready for prime-time, so it would be up to this
community to decide if it should go that route and put it into the core
distribution or have it implemented as an extension.

I think our preference would be that it is implemented as an extension
first and in such a way as to make it very easy to integrate it into
MediaWiki core once all of the bugs are worked out in the extension.

Does anybody have a link to a previous discussion about how to get
Wikipedia to output the same data that dbpedia.org is publishing?

David Gerard wrote:
> Something deep inside the plumbing of a template would be the place
> for this.

I agree.

-- manu

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President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/12/14/monarch/

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