Platonides wrote:
Both of you seem to think that wikipedia editors would
start placing
RDF/Microdata interleaved with wiki markup.
I don't think that could ever happen. The "direct markup" would be
inserted into infoboxes (which are themselves wikitext, although they
can get quite complex).
Just to be clear - I'm not trying to propose that wikipedia editors
should start writing wiki markup interleaved with RDFa/Microdata. Quite
the opposite - I think that allowing contributors to hand author RDFa or
Microdata would be a very bad idea for Wikipedia. However, it seems like
what you are saying is that interleaving HTML like this is not possible
anyway - which is a good thing, IMHO.
Perhaps we shouldn't provide the full power of RDF
or Microdata yet,
and provide instead a extension able to handle a subset, using one or
another.
XHTML1+RDFa is certainly ready for prime-time, so it would be up to this
community to decide if it should go that route and put it into the core
distribution or have it implemented as an extension.
I think our preference would be that it is implemented as an extension
first and in such a way as to make it very easy to integrate it into
MediaWiki core once all of the bugs are worked out in the extension.
Does anybody have a link to a previous discussion about how to get
Wikipedia to output the same data that
dbpedia.org is publishing?
David Gerard wrote:
Something deep inside the plumbing of a template would
be the place
for this.
I agree.
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