On 21/01/2008, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 21/01/2008, aliasd wiki4@da-bom.com wrote:
...It would be great to select an infobox by cat from a dropdown menu, have all the fields displayed form style...
I used to think of them as a bit of a blight, but one day realised, uh, these are machine-readable information and hence potentially vastly useful.
Indeed. They're the stealth advance guard of the Semantic Wikipedia, unwittingly beloved by lots of people who either have never heard of the "Semantic" idea, or imagine that they believe it's too theoretical or unnecessarily complicated or otherwise not for them.
Semantic's is still as complicated as it seems. However infoboxes are structured nicely enough to allow outsiders to infer things from them without the trouble of explicitly including microformats or RDFa in Wikipedia pages.
Peter Ansell