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.
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