Hi Norman, <div><br></div><div>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&#39;s email more about this off-list, if you might be interested in volunteering. </div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">&quot;A </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">semantic wiki</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> is a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">wiki</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> that has an underlying </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_model" title="Knowledge model" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">model of the knowledge</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> described in its pages. Regular, or syntactic, wikis have structured text and untyped </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink" title="Hyperlink" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">hyperlinks</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. 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 </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database" title="Database" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">database</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" style="line-height:1em;font-family:sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;white-space:nowrap;background-repeat:initial initial">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height:1em;font-family:sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;white-space:nowrap;background-repeat:initial initial">[2]</a>&quot; (Wikipedia)</sup><br>
<br><br>Sincerely, </div><div>Scott</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Norman Richter <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:development@normanrichter.de" target="_blank">development@normanrichter.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">hi there. 
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">i am a student 
of computer sciences in germany wanting to do my academic thesis (diplomarbeit). 
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">i am very 
interested in things connected to the semantic web. </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">so it would be 
a pleasure to me to work on an challenging topic for wikipedia. 
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">this means, i 
am NOT looking for jobs that are just work. </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">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. 
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">would be cool 
if i could do something for wikidata. </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">waiting for 
suggestions...<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>norman</font></span></font><br></font></div></font></div></div>
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