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.<br><br>Seth<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn <<a href="mailto:jquinn@cs.oberlin.edu">jquinn@cs.oberlin.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. <br>
<br>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.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com" target="_blank">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div>On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, drew einhorn <<a href="mailto:drew.einhorn@gmail.com" target="_blank">drew.einhorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Has there been any discussion of this?<br>
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> Just this list of sites using Semantic MediaWiki is enough to spark some<br>
> interest.<br>
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> <a href="http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Sites_using_Semantic_MediaWiki" target="_blank">http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Sites_using_Semantic_MediaWiki</a><br>
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</div></div>It looks promising for what the Wiki reorganizers are currently trying to do.<br>
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"While articles in MediaWiki are just plain texts, SMW allows users to<br>
add structured data, comparable to the data one would usually store in<br>
a database. SMW uses the fact that such data is already contained in<br>
many articles: users just need to "mark" the according places so that<br>
the system can extract the relevant data without "understanding" the<br>
rest of the text. With this information, SMW can help to search,<br>
organise, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content."<br>
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It would be particularly good if integrated into the templates.<br>
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