2009/8/24 geni geniice@gmail.com:
In practice the end point of Natural language processing and large scale digitalisation is likely to be made to request computer generated custom articles. Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping stone in this direction.
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.