Re: [Semediawiki-user] Annotating multiple objects on a single page

[Yaron K. <ya...@gm...>]

Hi Kelly,

It's nice to hear from you again. Actually, I recall you used to send emails
on just this sort of subject, back when you were more active on the list.

Anyway, I can think of a few major objections to this scheme, but one
obvious one is that it can't handle conflicts very well. What if someone, on
another page on the wiki, writes a completely different family tree for Bob?
Or writes that Bob is a circus elephant? The problem with providing
unlimited freedom is that there's then no structure for dealing with
conflicting claims.

-Yaron

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Kelly Jones <kel...@gm...>wrote:

> Problem: Sentences like this provide semantic information on many objects
> at once:
>
> "Bob has two sons, Bill and Jim, who married Mary and Katy
> respectively. Bill and Mary have twin girls, Jill and Amanda."
>
> However, in a normal semantic wiki, you can only provide semantic
> information for one object per page.
>
> Possible solution: let people write to "blank" pages that aren't
> associated with any object, and create the wiki pages dynamically from
> those.
>
> Example: on a blank page that isn't a page on the wiki, you write:
>
> [Bob:text: has two sons, [Bob:son:Bill] and [Bob:son:Jim], who married
> [Bill:wife:Mary] and [Jim:wife:Katy] respectively. Bill and Mary have
> twin girls, [Bill:daughter:Jill] [Mary:daughter:Jill|] and
> [Bill:daughter:Amanda] [Mary:daughter:Amanda|]. [Jill:twin:Amanda|]]
>
> (things like [Mary:daughter:Jill|] create a semantic triple, but print
> nothing)
>
> When you save this page, the Bob page would have all the text in the
> paragraph above, while the Jim, Bill, Mary, etc pages would just have the
> semantic relations created above.
>
> This also lets people add information to the wiki in a more freeform
> style and makes a cleaner separation between readers and editors.
>
> For efficiency, each time you save a "blank" page (there would be several
> of these, maybe called 'username page 1', 'username page 2', etc), you
> could update all the wiki pages it affects.
>
> This seems so basic, I'm guessing someone has already done it?
>
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