Wikipedia:Semantic Wikipedia

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The Semantic Wikipedia would combine the properties of the Semantic Web and Wiki technology. It would be very interesting to define an ontology of wikipedia articles, such as:

An article about a literary author contains information of:

  • biography
  • main works
  • style, trends he or she followed
  • review
  • bibliography
  • reference

An article about a literary movement is related to:

  • authors that participated
  • historical episodes related to those authors biographies
  • mention to main works

And so forth: Authors related to towns, towns related to countries, countries to continents... It would help making inferences, associations, content augmentations, etc. It would also combine with robots that create templates, relating existing information into new articles.

It would be a very enriching complement to browsing and content discovery.

[edit] Related projects

  • Semantic MediaWiki
  • Platypus Wiki "Platypus Wiki is a project to develop an enhanced Wiki Wiki Web with ideas borrowed from the Semantic Web. It offers a simple user interface to create wiki pages with metadata based on W3C standards. It uses RDF (Resource Description Framework), RDF Schema and OWL (Web Ontology Language) to create ontologies and manage metadata. Platypus Wiki is an ongoing open source project started on 23rd December 2003. The project is actually hosted on SourceForge and licensed under GNU GPL."
  • Wikipedia:Persondata

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