Karl Eichwalder wrote:
I think that if Wikipedia ever puts out a "stable" version for distribution, the articles should be structured with XML. That's a job for dedicated editors with a good knowledge of document structure. Forcing it on the live wiki would, in my unproven opinion, by harmful.
Perhaps. Nevertheless, I'd like to give it a try; I'm seriously interested in a Wiki using the TEI DTD as its markup language. Unfortunately, my resources (time, knowlegde in hacking) are too limited to such a project come true on my own.
That would be interesting... and a lot of work. You would want some editing tools that go beyond what the typical wiki provides.
b schewek wrote:
Maybe the 'textbook' would be interested? They were/are discussing the 'print' business.
I believe Nupedia (Wikipedia's parent encyclopedia project) used XML markup. That project had a division of labour between writers and editors: the former simply wrote the articles, while the latter did all the fancy markup.
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sgilbert@nbnet.nb.ca wrote:
I believe Nupedia (Wikipedia's parent encyclopedia project) used XML markup. That project had a division of labour between writers and editors: the former simply wrote the articles, while the latter did all the fancy markup.
And it worked well enough to generate 12 articles in 18 months, at an exorbitant cost to me. :-(
I'm not saying that XML is bad, though. I *am* saying, since I've been silent throughout this entire discussion, that I tend to side with those who disfavor adding to or changing our markup much, despite the fact that it isn't very powerful.
I'm very enamoured of the idea of meta-content markup. Marking up <date></date> or <person></person> and so on, wow, there are a lot of cool possibilities.
But we should be reluctant to tamper much with a system that totally works in an amazing way.
--Jimbo
sgilbert@nbnet.nb.ca wrote:
I believe Nupedia (Wikipedia's parent encyclopedia project) used XML markup. That project had a division of labour between writers and editors: the former simply wrote the articles, while the latter did all the fancy markup.
That's how it was supposed to be; and it was not really XML, just HTMLwith some proprietary tags (I'd know; I rewrote that part of the software;-) But, we even had SVG support back those days! :-)
Magnus
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