On 9/24/07, Markus Krötzsch mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 23/09/2007, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com wrote:
I've sort of given up on writing a new semantic MediaWiki extension myself, and instead would like to hire someone to do this. More info below. Any takers?
Have you seen http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki ?
I am also surprised by this plan. If you actually mean the same that we do by "semantic MediaWiki", then you are welcome to join the project. If not, then I urge you to call it differently in order to not confuse anyone ;-) Also note that we also have project-specific mailing lists (see above homepage).
Markus and Thomas,
Yes, I'm aware of http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki (I believe I referenced it in my original post + cc'd the semediawiki list(s)?).
I call my project 'semarbtri' to distinguish it from the existing Semantic Mediawiki project.
My biggest beef w/ Semantic Mediawiki (the reason I'm writing my own extension) is that you can only add semantic information for the page you're editing.
For example, on the Lucy page, you could say:
Lucy has a younger brother [[has_brother::Linus]]
However, you couldn't add any semantic information about Linus on the Lucy page. Instead, you'd have to create a new page for Linus, and add the semantic information there.
This can be really tedious if you're listing all the characters in a comic strip (for example)-- you have to create pages for each one, instead of just including the semantic info when you list them.
In my opinion, this is why startup wikis end up w/ so many blank pages.
I think having a plugin that lets you add info to other pages would be really helpful.