Thank you Erik!
But I do not believe the potential scope of these two extensions has been
appropriately realized by the powers that be, otherwise the technologies
would have been put to a large scale trial sooner. It is not just about the
facts contained in template data. With these extensions more advanced wiki
users can design information architectures that abstract away all of the
complicated syntax.
Isn't that what this is about? WYSIWYG can only do so much unless you plan
to re-implement the parser in javascript.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
2008/12/5 Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>du>:
Semantic Mediawiki and Semantic Forms are already
high quality mediawiki
extensions that go along way towards usability and quality issues. They
are
also free.
Hi Brian,
an "environmental scan" of available technologies is part of the
project plan. We're well-aware of SMW and SMF - in fact we used a
screenshot of SMF in the grant proposal to illustrate easier editing
of template data. We'll definitely examine it as a potential building
block, and we'll share our thinking throughout the project.
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