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It is an experimental wiki that may become a [[large public wiki]]. Like [[Consumerium]] it is using the [[mediawiki]] software in its R&D phase - and also like Consumerium it intends to create tools to work with material that is in some [[Wikitext standard]] prototype format with well developed multi-language conventions, most likely based on that now used in [[Wikipedia]]. | It is an experimental wiki that may become a [[large public wiki]]. Like [[Consumerium]] it is using the [[mediawiki]] software in its R&D phase - and also like Consumerium it intends to create tools to work with material that is in some [[Wikitext standard]] prototype format with well developed multi-language conventions, most likely based on that now used in [[Wikipedia]]. | ||
It is very clear that they intend NOT to use mediawiki or perl exclusively, or maybe at all, in the long term - they have defined an [http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Metaweb:intermediate_page intermediate page format] which is explicitly designed for their own custom software to suck in and generate a [[semantic web]]. Which is something the [[ | It is very clear that they intend NOT to use mediawiki or perl exclusively, or maybe at all, in the long term - they have defined an [http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Metaweb:intermediate_page intermediate page format] which is explicitly designed for their own custom software to suck in and generate a [[semantic web]]. Which is something the [[Content Wiki]] (a semantic web itself, segmented probably by [[faction]]) must be able to do to the [[Opinion Wiki]] as a pre-step to affecting the [[Consumerium buying signal]]. So their ultimate solution might also be ours, if we can co-operate with them early enough and use the same tools base. A first step to this might be to simply adopt a close enough variation of their intermediate page format (with different section titles probably, we don't want a "Stephensonia" section) that we can use their tools here with few adaptations. | ||
They are also seemingly taking the lead in thinking about how Wikitext will be translated into an XML-like semantic web, so an [[XML dump]] might not be page by page and strictly marked up for style, but, might actually be whole topic areas at once, or all [[factionally defined]] terms unique to one [[faction]] in our application. Being able perhaps to re-integrate the semantic web after multiple parties have edited the different factional sections independently... | |||
It is not clear how they plan to deal with licensing, but they are presently [[GFDL]] and seem to be quite aware that [[mediawiki]] isn't capable of really implementing this license, nor supporting advanced GFDL capabilities like [[Invariant Section]]s that would be required for any kind of certification or validation of article versions. | |||
It is not clear how they plan to deal with licensing, but they are presently [[GFDL]] and seem to be quite aware that [[mediawiki]] isn't capable of really implementing this license, nor supporting advanced GFDL capabilities like [[Invariant Section]]s that would be required for any kind of certification or validation of article versions. | |||
The project includes some major brains like [[Danny Hillis]] and [[Neal Stephenson]], and seems [[troll friendly]] enough at the moment to make it possible to at least introduce the correct bridging ideas into both projects. | The project includes some major brains like [[Danny Hillis]] and [[Neal Stephenson]], and seems [[troll friendly]] enough at the moment to make it possible to at least introduce the correct bridging ideas into both projects. | ||