[Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?
Nikola Smolenski
smolensk at eunet.yu
Wed Jan 14 09:57:01 UTC 2009
David Gerard wrote:
> The other useful thing that can be done with templates is to
> standardise the field names in them as much as possible per wiki.
>
> The reason? To enhance machine readability of data in them. People are
> SERIOUSLY INTERESTED in this.
Another useful thing: after an article is parsed, write all the
templates it uses and their parameters in the database. Even if at first
it isn't possible to read this data on Wikipedia, Toolserver could do
wonders with it :)
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