On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Martynas Jusevicius martynas@graphity.org wrote:
Hey again,
"getting over" wasn't meant to be harsh. I was hoping though "wiki" in "Wikidata" stands for a the broader concept of "free and open", and not a particular syntax for encoding knowledge.
I'm all for free and open knowledge, but I think sticking to the same mechanisms which helped bootstrap Wikipedia is not a good idea when building the next-generation semantic Wikidata. It prohibits out-of-the-box thinking and evaluating new, state-of-the art approaches in this area. Wouldn't it be desired that the tasks on Wikidata could be done via an intuitive user-interface rather than via wiki syntax? I would certainly think so, and I also think it is doable.
There will be forms and the like to input information. We're trying to make it as intuitive as possible.
Cheers Lydia