Hoi, The biggest problem with Semantic MediaWiki, something that will prevent localisation at Betawiki is the way it does its localisation. I have been told by Danny that they will fix this before Wikimania.. Given that we need some time at Betawiki to absorb it, I hope that it will be sooner rather then later... Some parts of SMMW have already been adapted to the standard way of localising ie we know that there are no technical obstacles, it is just work that needs doing. Thanks, GerardM
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/04/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday night, I went to London PerlMongers social drinks and guzzled ridiculous quantites of Adnam's Oyster Stout and talked rubbish with geeks.
Good times!
- I told the story of why MediaWiki is written in PHP. (Magnus had
read up on PHP to make some changes to NuPedia code, and decided he needed a project. So Phase 2 is Magnus' first ever proper PHP program ...)
I hadn't heard that before - explains a few things.
- They really want machine-readability from Wikipedia. The infobox
templates on Wikipedia are getting there. Mostly what they need is standardisation (is the image called "image", "Image" or "Img"?), and a base template that's {{Persondata}} or a reasonable approximation. This is a matter of parser-functions in the template wikitext on the 'pedia, but it's something someone needs to take on as a project: to re-plumb the templates without breaking the nice exposed external interface. Who knows parser-function code and is feeling ambitious and patient?
Is it worth getting Wikipedia to use Semantic MediaWiki? It would allow for much more powerful machine-readability than templates, but probably has hundreds of obstacles to trip over to get there.
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