[WikiEN-l] Annoying exonyms (was: hatnotes)

[geni]

2009/8/24 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> Yes. Rather a lot of conversations I have with random geeks are along
> these lines.
>
> Basically, infoboxes = machine-readable data = good. So the way to go
> there would be to make template plumbing give data more amenable to
> chewing on. (Standardised names for template parameters, e.g. name,
> photo.)
>
>
> - d.

Only in the short term. One of the things that makes wikipedia
interesting is that it contains data with different levels of
structure. Making a program that can read one infobox is easy. Making
a program that can work out how to read related infoboxes is harder
but far more interesting.



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geni