Hoi,
Templates are waiting for the kill. They are hard to use. They are horrible
to maintain. Semantic MediaWiki is something that I do and can understand.
I do agree that a kill is called for and it is those horrid templates.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 11 May 2011 00:13, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Does any extension like this already exist?
> >>
> >
> > Semantic MediaWiki
>
> I call overkill :-)
>
> Template parameters are a good place to start, we should just use them
> better. Example: {{Persondata}} on de.wikipedia, aggregated and
> updated continuously, leads to things like:
> http://toolserver.org/~apper/pd/person/Jimmy_Wales
>
> Over 380.000 biographies from German Wikipedia, with parsed dates
> (where possible), places, etc.
>
> Displaying the data (on a timeline etc) is rather trivial once the
> data is available in machine-readable form.
>
> Magnus
>
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