Hi Asaf,
It's an interesting idea, thanks for throwing it out there. Just to play devil's advocate a little bit, aren't most of the citations and external links in Wikipedia articles assertions of "aboutness"? How is what you are proposing different? For example, from the English Wikipedia Article for Friendship you could derive the following RDF assertion:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Friendship dcterms:subject http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q491 .
I guess answering my own question a bit, perhaps it could be easier for people to make these assertions as they are reading material on the web...and that perhaps not all of them belong in the citation or external links sections of Wikipedia articles? Some articles could get a bit long and unwieldy. I remember a social bookmarking site called Faviki that uses Wikipedia as a controlled vocabulary for tagging content while bookmarking it. Is that similar to what you are thinking about?
//Ed
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello.
Some of you have heard me rant about this for a couple of years now. So, I finally wrote something up:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Massively-Multiplayer_Online_Bibliography
Much, much to be added, but I'd love for this to be a group conversation, so by all means, dig in! :)
A.
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