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[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Jurriaan
Schulman
I agree with Andrew wholeheartedly. Moreover, my
greatest concerns are
not so much the wasted time (hand editing) and wasted
disk space but
rather the search capabilities. I think that it is important as
wikipedia grows that a sophisticated search engine is available. My
opinion is just that meta date makes searching easier. I am open to
other suggestions though. Who knows, maybe we will have smarter
algorithms in the future which can interpret and analyse text like
humans, that would solve a lot of the discussed problems
:-)
In the end, I think advanced searching will address many of the concerns
you bring up, rather than using formally tracked/rigid metadata. But it
would be quite an interesting area for research. As Magnus said, making
it machine friendly seems to necessarily make it human unfriendly. So
is it there a good equilibrium point in the middle?