From: SMTP%"wikinews-l@Wikimedia.org" "Wikinews mailing list" 28-SEP-2006 19:23:21.23 Subj: [Wikinews-l] Semantic MediaWiki and Wikinews From: "Erik Moeller" erik@Wikimedia.org
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
This does look interesting, but I have one question.
Assuming we take an existing Infobox such as the Today's news one could this combined with various other parts of Wikicode allow a default Infobox that the user could customise?
I'm thinking, along the lines of
if the user has a page User:{{USERNAME}}/TodayPrefs then its content is displayed in the infobox otherwise a default is presented.
Actually, there's a whole slew of questions that could be asked about how this can be used so I'd say it should be nominated to be installed on en.wikinews and we see what can be done with it.
Brian.
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