On 24 September 2010 12:41, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
They need a USP (Sanger's involvement is not going to be at all relevant to that now). Well, they need a few things.
There was some forum discussion a while ago about using Semantic MediaWiki for importing large databases in a more useful format than plain text. First they need to get back to a mainline MediaWiki with their customisations in an extension. (The previous "let's be gratuitously different to Wikimedia" stance [*] has been changed - e.g. Dan Nessett has been active on wikitech-l with regards to how to test a MediaWiki instance).
But an encyclopedia with the semantic stuff actually being used - that'd be *interesting*.
But it prompts me to wonder what our USP is. "You have heard of us" doesn't count.
"We're the biggest and the best by a ridiculous degree" does, however. Not first - Everything2 and h2g2 started earlier. I think it helps that we can still honestly say "we're painfully aware of how and how much we suck."
- d.