- From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:03:18 -0500
- To: w3c semweb hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, Roderic Page <r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk>
On Thursday 10 July 2008, Roderic Page <r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk> 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 ________________________________________ http://heybryan.org/
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