[OLPC library] Semantic MediaWiki

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Just to complement there is already a bug about it in d.l.o.,

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6409

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com>
wrote:

> Apparently Semantic MediaWiki is like Magic Pixie dust of happiness.  But
> that's just what I hear.  I say we should talk to the new Sys-admin about
> it.
>
> Seth
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn <
> jquinn at cs.oberlin.edu> wrote:
>
> > I glanced at this during the activity discussion, thinking about keeping
> > the activity lists. It seemed to me that this had two issues: one is that
> > the metadata is searchable but not easily includable on a given page; and
> > the other is the learning curve, given that extra semantics must be
> > rigorously defined. I suspect that for a general-public wiki, it would be
> > more trouble than it was worth.
> >
> > I also posted a link to a similar concept, WikiDB or something, which
> > seemed to be more appropriate technology on both the above counts, but which
> > is unfortunately not a mature program, more like alpha stage. Oh well.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Has there been any discussion of this?
> > > >
> > > > Just this list of sites using Semantic MediaWiki is enough to spark
> > > some
> > > > interest.
> > > >
> > > > http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Sites_using_Semantic_MediaWiki
> > >
> > > It looks promising for what the Wiki reorganizers are currently trying
> > > to do.
> > >
> > > "While articles in MediaWiki are just plain texts, SMW allows users to
> > > add structured data, comparable to the data one would usually store in
> > > a database. SMW uses the fact that such data is already contained in
> > > many articles: users just need to "mark" the according places so that
> > > the system can extract the relevant data without "understanding" the
> > > rest of the text. With this information, SMW can help to search,
> > > organise, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content."
> > >
> > > It would be particularly good if integrated into the templates.
> > >
> > > > --
> > > > Drew Einhorn
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Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
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