On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:41 AM, James Forrester<ja...@jdforrester.org> wrote: > 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.
Wikis are not unstructured. The structure is not defined, but it is added as needed. Here is a tool that relies on the added structure of the Wikisource bibles. http://toolserver.org/~Magnus/biblebay.php?bookname=Genesis&booknumber=1&range=1 And here is the code for that tool: https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/Magnus/biblebay.php?r=1 The more structure provided by the wiki, the better the tools can query it. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
