User:Filceolaire
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Draft comment:
Option 1 Free form meta-data. Enter it once use it everywhere.
This is the model adopted by the Semantic Mediawiki software. A ‘Type’ label can be added to items of information in the article (Attributes) and to links between articles (Relationships). This can be read by a specialist search engine to automatically produce info boxes on the page and to produce specialist search pages – e.g. All cities with population over 3 300 401, all female physicists with red hair.
Advantages:
- information is entered only once.
Disadvantages
- Information is entered in encyclopedia articles so it is hard to reuse in other language encyclopedias (which is the master encyclopedia).
- It is difficult to annotate information with sources (who said that’s the population), time (when did it have that population?).
Option 2 – Wiki infobase. A collection of structured data in a separate shared repository accessible to all wikipedias
This is the model adopted by the Wikidata software.
Advantages
- Information is accessible to all wikipedias, even the smallest, in their native language.
- editing rules can be tighter (every fact needs a source) than for wikipedias in other languages.
- information can be harvested from infoboxes (though this conflicts with the item above)
- Information must be reentered by hand in the body of the article, encouraging editors to consider if some commentary is required.
Disadvantages
- Information must be entered by hand in the body of the article.
