tpd79b Im obliged for the article.Really thank you! Really Cool.
[edit] Specific features
You mix several ideas, I try to seperate them and mix my thoughts together with it:
- Having a tree-structure of properties (groups are just a limited case of trees of depth 1) like place.population, person.name.given, etc. - I am not sure whether the benefit is little compared to the rise in complexity
- Putting data in parser-functions - the obvious benefit is probably easy of implementation
- Comments/sources/addition information about statements - really useful! Data without this will mostly be POV
- Data types, for instance with patterns - quickly wished but this will cause additional pain. Data types should be more then just formal patterns, you also need to define its semantics. Keep it for a second step.
Frankly the benefit compared to templates is little in the beginning. Now we can already extract data from templates and analyze them offline, for instance at the toolserver. There will always be the need to first extract data from Wikipedia and then analyze and use it, so we should not try to implement too much intelligence in the MediaWiki core or a WikiData extension. My 2ยข. -- JakobVoss 16:08, 3 June 2008 (CEST)