Hello all,
a while ago I asked the folks from the Semantic MediaWiki project to look into how they feel the SMW extension could be put to use on Wikinews. This could be part of a larger strategy to examine whether SMW could/should be deployed within the Wikimedia project family. Please see:
http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Wikinews
for their report. If you are unfamiliar with Semantic MediaWiki, please see
http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
for a description of the software. Your comments about this idea would be welcome; questions about the software are probably best left on the talk page of the Wikinews page above, or sent directly to the developers.