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WIKIPEDIA'S STRUCTURED DATA CHALLENGEERIK MOELLER
TREVOR PARSCALSEMTECH CONFERENCE, JUNE 25, 2010
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION
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PART 1:OF HUMANS AND WIKITEXT
(AND TEMPLATES)
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'''[[Wikitext]]''',<br />''it's kinda' messy''{{citation needed}}
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Roles of contribution
● Descriptive markup (content)● Facts, fgures, spelling and grammar fxes, etc.● Moderate expertise in Wikitext required
● Presentation markup (html, css)● Placement and styling of tables, images● Moderate expertise in HTML/CSS required
● Procedural markup (templates)● Creating info-boxes, citations, notices, etc.● Signifcant expertise in Wikitext required
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Description, Presentation and Procedure (concept)
== Markup Language ==
A markup language is a modern system for [[Annotation|annotating]] a text in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from that text.
Examples of markup languages include:
* SGML, XML and HTML* TeX and LaTeX* Wikitext
A markup language is a modern system for annotating a text in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from that textExamples of markup languages include:● SGML, XML and HTML● TeX and LaTeX● Wikitext
[edit]Markup Language
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Description, Presentation and Procedure (reality)
<!--BANNER ACROSS TOP OF PAGE-->{| id="mp-topbanner" style="width:100%; background:#f6f6f6; margin-top:1.2em; border:1px solid #ccc;"| style="width:61%; color:#000;" |<!--"WELCOME TO WIKIPEDIA" AND ARTICLE COUNT-->{| style="width:280px; border:none; background:none;"| style="width:280px; text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; color:#000;" |<div style="font-size:162%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">Welcome to [[Wikipedia]],</div><div style="top:+0.2em; font-size:95%;">the [[free content|free]] [[encyclopedia]] that [[Wikipedia:Introduction|anyone can edit]].</div><div id="articlecount" style="width:100%; text-align:center; font-size:85%;">[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in [[English language|English]]</div>|}
Welcome to Wikipedia,the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
3,331,743 articles in English
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Why is visual editing so hard?
● Commingling● Description, presentation and procedural information
are mixed together
● Ambiguity● Multiple styles of syntax can result in the same HTML
output● Parsing doesn't happen semantically - we don't know
what is creating what where and how, it's just a macro expander and a pile of regular expressions
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Interaction Methods
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Template Info Extension
Table of templateparameter info
Content ofarticle
{{Foo}}
<templateinfo> <param /> <param /></templateinfo>
Content oftemplate
Edit Template:Foo Edit Some_Article
View Template:Foo
Content of article
Content of template
View Some_Article
<templateinfo> <param /> <param /></templateinfo>
API Template:Foo
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Beyond Templates
Interlanguage links
[[af:Kreasionisme]][[ar:نظرية الخلق]][[az:Kreasionizm]][[bg:Креационизъм]][[ca:Creacionisme]][[cs:Kreacionismus]][[da:Kreationisme]][[de:Kreationismus]]
Categories
[[Category:Creationism]][[Category:Origin of life]][[Category:Theism]][[Category:Theology]][[Category:Christian terms]][[Category:Creation myths]]
Citations
{{citation |date=2004 |author=[[Eugenie Scott|Eugenie C. Scott]] (with forward by Niles Eldredge) |title=Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction |place=Berkley & Los Angeles, California |publisher=University of California Press |page=114 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=03b_a0monNYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=evolution+vs.+creationism&hl=en&ei=k1EZTMTRD86LkAWu2-1C&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn=0-520-24650-0 |accessdate=16 June 2010}}
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PART 2:WIKI DATA NOW!
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The Multilingual Ontology:OmegaWiki
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The Semantic Way:Semantic MediaWiki and
Semantic Forms
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Extraction:DBPedia
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Application:WikiPics
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The Web 2.0 Way:Freebase
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PART 3:YOUR MISSION
(SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO ACCEPT IT)
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A Wikidata Commons
● Centralized repository● Search and retrieval
● Wikipedia list generation● Fully multilingual
● No monolingual strings● Support for locales● Bootstrap small Wikipedias
● Support for external data● Rich APIs and exports● Data/layout separation
● Editable via forms● Scales. And scales. And scales.
Will you help us build it?