2009/8/26 John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Tisza Gergő<gti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> EOL is an encyclopedia, Wikispecies is just a raw taxonomy, which is totally >> useless to the average reader. It is also useless to most readers interested >> in >> taxonomies, because it lacks the software features to extract that. It is in >> a >> similar position to Wiktionary: a project about relations between things that >> totally lacks the concept of relations on the software level. That is like >> publishing text in the form of JPG files. If you are one of the few people >> specifically interested in taxonomies, you will probably use something that >> allows you to query and extract the relational data. > > While the wiki software layer is very basic, we have many complex > tools on our toolserver. Here is a small sample of the projects which > run on the toolserver. > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/Projects > > If you can specify what queries you are most interested in, the > technical group may be able to write a tool to do this.
I think the point is that the fundamental design of MediaWiki - around a single block of unstructured information - is not useful for a semantic project like WSp; there are much better ways of doing it. Toolserver projects cannot add functionality to the core in a proper way. Extensions like Semantic MediaWiki try, but in the end we are trying to 'fix' it, I'm afraid. J. -- James D. Forrester jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
