On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Ryan Lane wrote:
Spend some time editing a well designed
Semantically enabled wiki. Web
Platform is a good example: <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page
.
There's a high degree of structure there. That wiki is way above average
quality from the point of view of a reader specifically because it
enables
the editor to easily make the content consistent.
OK, given your experience with Web Platform, I'd like to get your
assessment of what sort of engineering and design effort was required. What
you are proposing is considerably more ambitious in scope (Web Platform
doesn't integrate with bug management and SCM), but some napkin cost
analysis could be very useful. Web Platform has very good usability and
design. Even if the basic blocks for a semantically-enabled wikitech are
there, there is still a large additional investment of designer time and
effort that would be needed to make it usable and well-integrated. But how
much? (Input from designers would be useful, too.)
This isn't technically my proposal. It's Quim's, so he can likely
better
answer this.
For webplatform the semantic design was implemented by a couple engineers
in about 3-6 months.
- Ryan