Hoi,
The biggest problem with Semantic MediaWiki, something that will prevent
localisation at Betawiki is the way it does its localisation. I have been
told by Danny that they will fix this before Wikimania.. Given that we need
some time at Betawiki to absorb it, I hope that it will be sooner rather
then later... Some parts of SMMW have already been adapted to the standard
way of localising ie we know that there are no technical obstacles, it is
just work that needs doing.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 06/04/2008, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thursday night, I went to London PerlMongers
social drinks and
guzzled ridiculous quantites of Adnam's Oyster Stout and talked
rubbish with geeks.
Good times!
* I told the story of why MediaWiki is written
in PHP. (Magnus had
read up on PHP to make some changes to NuPedia code, and decided he
needed a project. So Phase 2 is Magnus' first ever proper PHP program
...)
I hadn't heard that before - explains a few things.
* They really want machine-readability from
Wikipedia. The infobox
templates on Wikipedia are getting there. Mostly what they need is
standardisation (is the image called "image", "Image" or
"Img"?), and
a base template that's {{Persondata}} or a reasonable approximation.
This is a matter of parser-functions in the template wikitext on the
'pedia, but it's something someone needs to take on as a project: to
re-plumb the templates without breaking the nice exposed external
interface. Who knows parser-function code and is feeling ambitious and
patient?
Is it worth getting Wikipedia to use Semantic MediaWiki? It would
allow for much more powerful machine-readability than templates, but
probably has hundreds of obstacles to trip over to get there.
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