Thanks a lot Dimitri for you answer. I will talk about that with Julien
Cojan.
Best.
Julien Plu.
2013/4/5 Dimitris Kontokostas <jimk...@gmail.com>
> Hi Julien
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Julien Plu <
> julien....@redaction-developpez.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I saw few days ago that MediaWiki since one month allow to create
>> infoboxes (or part of them) with Lua scripting language.
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua_scripting
>>
>> So my question is, if every data in the wikipedia infoboxes are in Lua
>> scripts, DBPedia will still be able to retrieve all the data as usual ?
>>
>
> I think that there is some time untill all infoboxes start using Lua. Even
> if they do we still don't know if it will be just for rendering or if it
> will affect the actual data. This is very fresh so we'll have to wait a
> while and see how it goes
>
>
>> My other question is mainly concerned by Wikipedia FR, because I don't
>> found the same thing in english, sorry. Since almost one year for the
>> infobox population property we can do something like that :
>>
>> population = {{population number}}
>>
>> Where "population number" refer to a number which is on another page. Let
>> me give you an example, the Wikipedia page about Toulouse city, contain
>> this infobox property :
>>
>> | population = {{Dernière population commune de France}}
>>
>> And the value of "Dernière population commune de France" is contained in
>> this wikipedia page :
>> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Donn%C3%A9es/Toulouse/%C3%A9volution_population
>>
>> So now the problem is that in the xml dump we don't have the real value
>> of the population so it exist a way to have the value and not the "string"
>> which represent the value ?
>>
>> I hope that I was enough clear, otherwise don't hesitate to ask me some
>> informations in more about these problems.
>>
>
> Tthe problem that you are describing is known but we were not aware that
> it existed in infoboxes too.
> We faced this when we needed to generate abstracts so we used a working
> mediawiki clone of wikipedia to render them. Your case is more complicated
> because we can't know in advance what needs to be rendered or not.
>
> You should also talk with Julien Cojan, he is responsible the DBpedia in
> french Chapter (fr.dbpedia.org). I guess he already faced similar issues.
>
> Best,
> Dimitris
>
>
>>
>> Thanks for your lights.
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> Julien Plu.
>>
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