On 6/3/06, Jens Frank jf@mormo.org wrote:
The additional changes to the syntax needed for Semantic Mediawiki would make the syntax even more difficult to understand, especially for people who are not aware of semantic markup. Things like
San Diego is a [[is a::city]]. It has a population of [[population:=1300000]].are not very intuitive any more. Good ideas how to hide the complexity from newbies would be very welcome.
The two specific examples you give could be handled by rigorous use of categories and infoboxes respectively. If all cities belonged to a subcategory of Category:Cities, and all cities had an infobox derived from some {{City infobox}} with a "population" parameter, you would have some "semantic markup" for nothing.
Steve