On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Ryan Lane wrote:
Spend some time editing a well designed Semantically enabled wiki. Web Platform is a good example: <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page . There's a high degree of structure there. That wiki is way above average quality from the point of view of a reader specifically because it
enables
the editor to easily make the content consistent.
OK, given your experience with Web Platform, I'd like to get your assessment of what sort of engineering and design effort was required. What you are proposing is considerably more ambitious in scope (Web Platform doesn't integrate with bug management and SCM), but some napkin cost analysis could be very useful. Web Platform has very good usability and design. Even if the basic blocks for a semantically-enabled wikitech are there, there is still a large additional investment of designer time and effort that would be needed to make it usable and well-integrated. But how much? (Input from designers would be useful, too.)
This isn't technically my proposal. It's Quim's, so he can likely better answer this.
For webplatform the semantic design was implemented by a couple engineers in about 3-6 months.
- Ryan