I can think of a beneficial feature to smw which would be good for it
and the web.
Besides creating a SPARQL endpoint, and exporting RDF data, Semantic
MediaWiki is pretty closed off with it's own data. All of the page info
and such is restricted to that data which you annotate articles with.
But, what about other wiki?
I think a real useful feature would be a method of periodically loading
semantic data from one wiki into another. Not as an import, but
basically on a cron job or job que going in, loading a set of semantic
data into the table (either another set of tables; or by adding an id
into the current tables to mark what wiki the data comes from). Then
this data would be seamlessly used within the wiki. Ideally, this would
probably be something that integrates with interwiki links, meaning any
wiki inside the interwiki table could have semantic data imported into
the wiki, as well this would make integrating Page type data on another
wiki real nice and clean (using interwiki links to all non-local
semantic data). All that data would become queryable.
Basically kind of like this:
Germany wiki
==[[Bexbach]]==
[[Population::19218]]
[[Area::31.08 km²]]
==[[Detmold]]==
[[Population::73707]]
[[Area::129.39 km²]]
England Wiki
==[[Cambridge]]==
[[Population::120000]]
[[Area::115.65 km²]]
World Wiki
Imports from Germany: and England: interwiki.
For what the wiki cares you can query:
{{#ask: [[Population::+]] | ?Population | ?Area }}
And get the table:
Page Population Area
[[Germany::Bexbach|]] 19218 31.08 km²
[[Germany::Detmold|]] 73707 129.39 km²
[[England::Cambridge|]] 120000 115.65 km²
I believe this was actually the bigger idea of the "Semantic Web",
individual resources being handling information, other resources being
able to query out that data, reuse it, and add in their own data, and in
turn export more data into the web. In this case, the Semantic Wiki Web,
it would be possible for piles of semantically enabled wiki to annotate
data on their topics, similar more broad wiki could go and import
semantics from many semantically enabled wiki, combine together data,
query it out, and create info on an even broader scale, while keeping
that fine grain of detail.
There are a number of individual anime wiki out on the internet, some
are starting to become semantically enabled. It would be an extremely
interesting possibility if one wiki just about anime, could import
semantics from all those wiki,
If necessary, we could always setup the semantic import using a kind of
import concept (concept being the query concepts we currently have)
which would restrict what data to import from wiki on an interwiki link,
if necessary it could perhaps rename even.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
~Profile/Portfolio: http://nadir-seen-fire.com
-The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com)
--It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com)
--The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org)
-Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
--Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com)
--Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)
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