[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/7/1 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> Editors clearly need a better system for declaring facts about
> articles and then using them in advanced template programming. One can
> imagine an alternate system where his birthday is only declared once,
> like so, in the article text: born on [[birthday::July 6, 1946]]. And
> so on for all the other facts listed in his infobox. Rather than
> declaring them explicitly in the infobox, you declare them explicitly
> inline in the text in a highly readable format.

That's the idea behind Semantic MediaWiki. What are the chances of
getting that implemented on the Wikimedia wikis? (That's a very
different discussion to the one we're having here, though.)