On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Does any extension like this already exist?
Semantic MediaWiki
I call overkill :-)
Template parameters are a good place to start, we should just use them better. Example: {{Persondata}} on de.wikipedia, aggregated and updated continuously, leads to things like: http://toolserver.org/~apper/pd/person/Jimmy_Wales
Over 380.000 biographies from German Wikipedia, with parsed dates (where possible), places, etc.
Displaying the data (on a timeline etc) is rather trivial once the data is available in machine-readable form.
Magnus