2009/8/24 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Yes. Rather a lot of conversations I have with random geeks are along these lines.
Basically, infoboxes = machine-readable data = good. So the way to go there would be to make template plumbing give data more amenable to chewing on. (Standardised names for template parameters, e.g. name, photo.)
- d.
Only in the short term. One of the things that makes wikipedia interesting is that it contains data with different levels of structure. Making a program that can read one infobox is easy. Making a program that can work out how to read related infoboxes is harder but far more interesting.