On 6/3/06, Jens Frank <jf(a)mormo.org> wrote:
The additional changes to the syntax needed for
Semantic Mediawiki would
make the syntax even more difficult to understand, especially for people
who are not aware of semantic markup. Things like
San Diego is a [[is a::city]]. It has a population of
[[population:=1300000]].
are not very intuitive any more. Good ideas how to hide the complexity
from newbies would be very welcome.
The two specific examples you give could be handled by rigorous use of
categories and infoboxes respectively. If all cities belonged to a
subcategory of Category:Cities, and all cities had an infobox derived
from some {{City infobox}} with a "population" parameter, you would
have some "semantic markup" for nothing.
Steve