From: Yaron K. <ya...@gm...> - 2008-04-08 03:03:11
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By some strange coincidence, adding SMW to Wikipedia actually came up on the wikitech-l (Wikipedia's technical) mailing list yesterday: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-April/037274.html More an off-the-cuff musing than a real discussion, though. -Yaron On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:57 PM, S Page <in...@sk...> wrote: > John Catlow wrote: > > > Is there any kind of interaction in place (or planned) between SMW and > any > > of the big wikis, like the Wikipedias (in various languages)? > > I'm sure the Wikimedia Foundation has considered it, though I can't find > the discussion on any mailing list. > > > It seems to me> that SMW would offer a great enhancement to the > existing WPs, and also > > provide a good means of sharing information between them. > > There are possibilities. Special:Browse will provide translations of > some terms into the user's language if the terms' pages have an > interwiki language link. So a user faced with a bare-bones page in her > language could follow a link to see translated facts from a richer wiki. > You could imagine exporting translated facts in wiki syntax so an editor > or bot could paste translated facts from one language's wiki into the > lesser wiki. > > But the interwiki link to another language can be to a different, often > less-specific, article, so the facts won't apply. > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmegaWiki is a project to provide > definitions in multiple languages, and it notes: "Ideally all Translated > Definitions should be translations directly from the First Definition to > minimize semantic drift") > > You could imagine storing triples in a commons-like data store and then > translating them into a particular language for presentation on its > pages. But that's a different approach than SMW's model of annotating a > wiki page to capture the facts of which it is the subject. > > -- > =S Page > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., > Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > Sem...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > |