Hi Norman,
World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare, is planning to migrate its nearly 500 pages to WikiData and will need to define a series of relationships in this ur-wiki-development process. WUaS plans to be in all 3000-8000 languages and 200 countries, which compounds the number of computer science semantic wiki problems to solve. Let's email more about this off-list, if you might be interested in volunteering.
"A *semantic wiki* is a wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki that has an underlying model of the knowledgehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_model described in its pages. Regular, or syntactic, wikis have structured text and untyped hyperlinks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink. Semantic wikis, on the other hand, provide the ability to capture or identify information about the data within pages, and the relationships between pages, in ways that can be queried or exported like a databasehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database .[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki#cite_note-0[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki#cite_note-1" (Wikipedia)
Sincerely, Scott
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Norman Richter <development@normanrichter.de
wrote:
** hi there. i am a student of computer sciences in germany wanting to do my academic thesis (diplomarbeit). i am very interested in things connected to the semantic web. so it would be a pleasure to me to work on an challenging topic for wikipedia. this means, i am NOT looking for jobs that are just work. but i am looking for problems that i can solute with scientific methodology, for instance developing concepts and prototypes in the field of semantic technology. would be cool if i could do something for wikidata. waiting for suggestions... norman
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