Markus Kr?tzsch wrote:
I did not follow this discussion, but it seems appropriate to point to the
Semantic MediaWiki extension, which computes "implied categories" like "American actors" on request (it can combine unions, intersections, namespace membership, and further "semantic properties").
We will assist in any effort towards developing an efficient way of doing this, since our current implementation is probably not fast enough for large wikis.
Hi Markus. The semantic mediawiki extension is very cool, but I think the main issue at this point is exactly what you said in your second paragraph: An efficient way to do the data retrieval portion of this stuff (specifically, for me, category intersections). There are a few very neat extensions (semantic mediawiki, DPL, a home brewed category intersections special page I did for media wiki 1.4x) but they are not fast enough for a large wiki. This is the problem I'm trying to solve (for category intersections, anyway), and then we can hash out interfaces etc. I've got a test script using a MySQL fulltext index that may be good enough, and if it isn't, I'll do one using Lucene (the php version).
Maybe though, it's appropriate to talk about what features category intersections and semantic mediawiki share, and see if we can't find (data retrieval) solutions for both. I'm not familar with the backend of semantic mediawiki at all, so I can't comment on that.
Best Regards, Aerik
Best Regards, Aerik