I was silent on this thread mostly due to the following two points:
1. as mentioned several times, a standard for us to be considered must be
free. Free as in "Everyone can get it without having to pay or register for
it. I can give it to anyone legally without any restrictions." Free of
patents. Free as in W3C.
2. I have taken another look at your page, and after starting to read it
you simply loose me. You use so many terms without defining them. To give
just a few examples:
* "The NIF ontology is incorporated into the ontology for Wikitopics which
shapes API designs." I do not know what the Wikitopics ontology is. The
section beneath just lists a few keywords, but does not really explain it.
I do not know what it means for ontologies to incorporate one another. I do
not know what it means for an ontology to shape API designs.
* "Wikipage naming conventions are used to name subobjects in an equally
meaningful manner". Equally meaningful? To what? What does this even mean?
You completely lost me here.
* For the key wikipage transclusions, you do not explain what a "formatted
topic presentation" is, a "formatted topic index", or a "formatted
infobox". I think I understand the latter, but not the previous two. What
are they? And if I indeed understand it right, are you saying that
infoboxes have to be completely formatted in Wikidata, as Gregor has asked?
In short, speaking for myself, I did not answer because I still fail to
understand you.
I hope that helps,
Denny
2012/6/8 <jmcclure(a)hypergrove.com>
**
Hi all!
Am a bit mystified here! about the radio-silence to this thread or, for
that matter, to the
[[
meta:wikitopics]]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitopics>document itself.
From
wikipedia:<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinvent_the_wheel#Related_phras…
*Reinventing the square wheel* is the practice of unnecessarily
engineering artifacts that provide functionality already provided by
existing standard artifacts (reinventing the wheel) and ending up with a
worse result than the standard (a square
wheel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wheel>)l>).
This is an anti-pattern <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern> which
occurs when the engineer is unaware or contemptuous of the standard
solution or does not understand the problem or the standard solution
sufficiently to avoid problems overcome by the standard.
Thanks !
-jmc
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