* Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> [Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:06:02 +0100]: > On 01/22/2011 08:15 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > > Having a clear separate input text field "Author: ____" is much more > > user friendly {{#fileauthor:}}, which is so to say, a type of obscure > > MediaWiki jargon. > > I disagree. In real life, there are always more compliated > cases, where an author is not an author, but two authors > or a sculptor, or one painter and one photographer. These > things never fit in a single "author" field, and the same goes > for any other separated fields. But the free-form Wikipedia > can handle all real-world cases in plain human language. > > Various "expert systems" based on "artificial intelligence" > existed since the 1980s, but none of them produced a > universal encyclopedia. Only the text-based Wikipedia did. > After this humiliating fact, the same AI people (now dressed > as "semantic web" scholars) come and claim that they too > could have built Wikipedia, if it only were more structured. > They are wrong, of course. Lack of structure is precisely > what built Wikipedia. > > One may have not just a single triple for that, but the list / set of triples for the same person in a different role (different kind of author). There are two extremes - not to have any structure or to be overly structural. If there are few extra fields for an image description, why don't generalize it for all kinds of measured data - geographical, historical, population statistics, financial and economical data and so on? Why only the images are allowed to have structural and measurable data? However, I don't think that Wikipedia should have AI, because it requires huge computing power, and the problem is that AI algorithms are not efficient enough. To have the data structured is not a bad thing. It probably should not even try to do SPARQL, but offer these things to external sits. Don't make complex queries, leave it for offline tools / bots or toolserver. Semantic bots are a good idea - they might mine the data finding the cross-sets. It should be even lighter than SMW. However, I might be wrong. Dmitriy
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