Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITK_%28gene%29. It's
actually mostly highly structured text, with numerous stable
publication identifiers (DOIs and PubMed ids). OK, so it's not marked
up in RDF/XML, etc., but in order to exploit the long tail you
actually have to have a tail in the first place. I suggest that it's a
classic case of a choice between a simple system with lots of users
and just enough functionality to be usable, or a more elaborate system
lots of functionality, but with fewer users. I have a lot of sympathy
with the later, but my money is on the former.
Regards
Rod
On 10 Jul 2008, at 18:03, Bryan Bishop wrote:
On Thursday 10 July 2008, Roderic Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, they do mention http://www.wikiprofessional.org/portal/ as
a note added in proof, and I think the main point of their paper
was the ability to make use of the large, already existing community
that edits Wikipedia, rather than, say, create a new domain-specific
Wiki with a much smaller pool of potential editors. It's
fundamentally about the long tail, and how to exploit it.
So, if you're going to place it on Wikipedia you're going to fall
victim
to the already existing problems with the lack of semantics, yes?
There
is of course the templating functionality but I recall this being
somewhat of a hack for structured data storage and extraction. The
main
concern with plaintext-on-Wikipedia is that it's not an effective way
to truly exploit the long tail, since you're going to end up with this
massive plaintext disaster that will require human collating
(redundant
work- just get it right the first time). I should go read the genewiki
announcement anyway though :-).
- Bryan
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