Ori Avtalion, 05/04/2016 22:51: Thank you, I was not aware of this tool. I've added it to http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Python-wikiquotes . Who is "them"? Usually, Wikiquote wikis perfectly know that their content is difficult to parse programmatically, but have other priorities. For instance, the Italian Wikiquote is intentionally self-constrained to a very low usage of templates, even the most common ones, in order to help new users. The French Wikiquote adopted the template system mainly for reasons of "control", AFAIK. The matter has been discussed many times, but the most recent discussion of some size on the matter has been https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Structured_Wikiquote . If I see correctly, the one and only Wikiquote editor who expressed interest in this approach so far is BD2412 (most Wikiquote users probably felt like Ningauble). I can't see a discussion about [[m:Structured_Wikiquote]] other than https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Village_pump_archive_42#Updates_to_… on the English Wikiquote, so you may open one at the village pump. If you want to seriously work in this field, I can provide some suggestions if requested. It's probably easier to propose such big reforms on smaller and somehow dynamic Wikiquotes, such as Czech or Vietnamese, or on bigger ghost towns like the German Wikiquote. Nemo

Ori Avtalion, 06/04/2016 00:08: That's a very useful work too, comparable to DBpedia or the many Wiktionary-based thesauri! Let us know how the work proceeds and whether there are small changes which might make your work easier. (Maybe some wikitext conventions, fixable by a bot?) Nemo

Hi, "AFAIK, this hasn't been emulated on other Wikiquotes."ca.wikiquote also uses templates for quotes ({{cita}} or {{dita}} for popular quotes) although there are some pages that still need to be converted (53, https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Categoria:P%C3%A0gines_que_no_usen_la_plantil…). El Jueves 7 de abril de 2016 16:12, Matthieu André <matth.andre(a)gmail.com> escribió: Hey guys, Just to come back to the usage of templates on Wikiquote in French: it is linked to the reopening of this Wikiquote instance a few years ago. Indeed, it was agreed to reopen fr.wq only under the condition that all quotes would be appropriately referenced. We decided early on to use templates to facilitate this, as those templates can automatically identify and highlight incomplete references. On top of that, they ensure that all pages have identical formatting. AFAIK, this hasn't been emulated on other Wikiquotes. Cheers, Matthieu On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: Ori Avtalion, 06/04/2016 00:08: I'd rather focus any efforts on improving the parsing of existing pages using the Python library I mentioned. That's a very useful work too, comparable to DBpedia or the many Wiktionary-based thesauri! Let us know how the work proceeds and whether there are small changes which might make your work easier. (Maybe some wikitext conventions, fixable by a bot?) Nemo _______________________________________________ Wikiquote-l mailing list Wikiquote-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquote-l _______________________________________________ Wikiquote-l mailing list Wikiquote-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquote-l