[WikiEN-l] Annoying exonyms (was: hatnotes)

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/24 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>
>> In practice the end point of Natural language processing and large
>> scale digitalisation is likely to be made to request computer
>> generated custom articles. Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured
>> entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping stone in this
>> direction.
>
>
> Yes. Rather a lot of conversations I have with random geeks are along
> these lines.
>
> Basically, infoboxes = machine-readable data = good. So the way to go
> there would be to make template plumbing give data more amenable to
> chewing on. (Standardised names for template parameters, e.g. name,
> photo.)

Surely the real information is in the semantic linkings? The concept
of the wikilink is still in its infancy, I think. If linking can be
optimised (by editors), it will be fascinating to see what
relationships that throws up.

Carcharoth