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Show Cases for Semantic MediaWiki

Hi, we are looking for a good show case to demonstrate Semantic MediaWiki features (typed links and typed attributes).

Requirements:

• take a subset of current Wikipedia pages and annotate them collaboratively (convert links into typed links, convert numbers to attributes)
• We can't deal well with time & space reasoning (currently)

Ideas:

• Movies - IMDB is great already, time reasoning needed
• Animals - many pages exist, many links
• Soccer - too much space & time reasoning needed
• Beer - not enough 'links'
• Cars - not enough 'links'
• Software Tools - too dry, people won't understand
• Planes - not enough 'links'
• Look at Wikipedia-Templates (including parameters) and try to formalize them.
• Many places within the german wikipedia have geo-coordinates (e.g. [Eiffel Tower]). Add Property:Is_a "City" or "Place", add Attributes for Latitude and Longitude according to WGS86. Now define a SPARQ-Query for all cities/places, join with their geocoordinates, transform it to KML and show a map of landmarks for Google Earth (with links back to the wikipedia pages).

Besides Wikipedia, many [City Wikis] have lots of highly structured data, like:

• shops, restaurants etc
• public transportation (stations, connections)
• streets and places

It would be interesting to formalize adresses, locations, connections etc.

Practical approach

Once we have agreed upon a subject, the whole subset of Wikipedia articles should be copied automatically to wiki.ontoworld.org, with the addition of {{Showcase-none}}, to indicate that it needs sematic markup.

Example

We have a full blown directory implementation working that fits your descriptive requirements pretty well. MyWikiBiz.com gives a couple of examples how a database can be constructed either manually or with a bot, so that useful semantic queries may be constructed. Please see this page to whet your appetite. -- MyWikiBiz 22:05, 17 December 2007 (CET)