2009/8/24 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
--
geni