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28-SEP-2006 19:23:21.23
Subj: [Wikinews-l] Semantic MediaWiki and Wikinews
From: "Erik Moeller" <erik(a)Wikimedia.org>
a while ago I asked the folks from the Semantic
MediaWiki project to
look into how they feel the SMW extension could be put to use on
Wikinews. This could be part of a larger strategy to examine whether
SMW could/should be deployed within the Wikimedia project family.
Please see:
http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Wikinews
for their report. If you are unfamiliar with Semantic MediaWiki, please see
http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
This does look interesting, but I have one question.
Assuming we take an existing Infobox such as the Today's news one could this
combined with various other parts of Wikicode allow a default Infobox that the
user could customise?
I'm thinking, along the lines of
if the user has a page User:{{USERNAME}}/TodayPrefs then its content is
displayed in the infobox otherwise a default is presented.
Actually, there's a whole slew of questions that could be asked about how this
can be used so I'd say it should be nominated to be installed on en.wikinews
and we see what can be done with it.
Brian.