Carcharoth wrote: Banks' is the "utopian version". The dystopian/nihilist version is the "One True" multiverse of John Barnes. I really hate the fact that the author I love above all others wrote such a disgusting, horrifying, and inescapably compelling vision of the future. And yes, I know that 'Culture' is only utopian if you ignore the fnords. Abject apologies for contributing to the worrisome trend of this channel to descend to non-wikipedia related non sequiturs, but there are times when one simply has to let ones pop cult. erudition get the better of oneself. <wide smirk> Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

2009/8/24 geni &lt;geniice(a)gmail.com&gt;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.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM, David Gerard&lt;dgerard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Surely the real information is in the semantic linkings? The concept of the wikilink is still in its infancy, I think. If linking can be optimised (by editors), it will be fascinating to see what relationships that throws up. Carcharoth