On 19/10/2007, Ralph Hulslander <rph(a)rovenet.com> wrote:
Well I do not get it.
While the functioning definitely is interesting (I have very
little wiki knowledge so interesting means a lot to me).
I do not understand the relevancy of the questions.
Is this a "quiz" why should I spend my time answering questions
about a subject of no interest to me?
As I understand it, a broad application might be importing a Wikipedia
dump into the site and using user feedback to help automated
populating the semantic data store. The questions are thus the
extraction tool asking for some human verification as to whether it's
ascertained the correct relationship between two entities, e.g. "is X
a place in Y?". This is far more effective, and less boring, than
asking new visitors to populate a structured set, which while not too
hard, is a higher learning curve than editing a free-form text page.
Obviously, this would be of no interest to people helping to develop
the semantic interpretation of data, or anyone not interested in the
mission of that particular project, e.g. Wikipedia, where the mission
is to create a free encyclopaedia.
Rob Church