[WikiEN-l] CATEGORIES!!!!!!

[David Gerard]

On 10/04/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/04/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Todo: make semantic data approachable for newbies and editable in an
> > easy-to-understand way.  We're not 'the encyclopedia anyone can edit'
> > if our article source text is a specialised language that can't be
> > learned just by looking at a couple of examples.  Our markup is
> > getting too complicated for its own good already.

> I agree entirely. Hopefully this is a problem that the guys developing
> Semantic MediaWiki (or some other MediaWiki extension) will address. I
> certainly don't think it is an insurmountable problem. Just off the
> top of my head: two edit views, one displays simple wikisyntax for
> everyday editing and the other displays semantic-rich syntax.


mmm. At the moment, Semantic MediaWiki syntax is a tool for computer
scientists. It's not something I'd *ever* put in front of a general
user.


- d.