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From: Norbert van Bemmel <devnull@cauce.org>
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Subject: Re: Wikis and structured data
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In article <db08va$jde$1@apollon.grec.isp.9tel.net>,
"le noble, mon bel, l'immense, le prodigieux, le superbe AmphigouriX"
<Budelberger.Richard@free.France> wrote:
[weggeknipt]
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> > Yes, I've seen it and read it. It's an interesting and relevant message.
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> Si Sonam Chauhan ne le fait pas, Norbert van Bemmel ne pourrait-il
voici:
Hi there!
My impression of Wikis are they're great for maintaining
loosely-structured text, but not more structured data. This led to a
question: Can wiki pages have components sourced as "slices" from
another wiki page?
To see how this is useful, consider these wikipedia.org pages on Uruguay
and Paraguay:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay
Each has a table at top right with vital stats for each country.
However, the tables seem maintained by hand and subtly differ in format
- for eg: the table for Paraguay has no entry for "GDP". It would be
better if both tables were actually 'slices' of a huge wiki table on
another pages where vital stats of all countries could be maintained in
one place.
Perhaps a wiki page could refer to specific element/sub-elements from
another page using named DIVs or XHTML?
I read up on Wiki "transclusion" here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion
... and also a bit about "purple numbers" (for eg: as used here:
http://www.eekim.com/software/purple/purple.html).
But can one select a column of data? Can a purple number that represent
a column (or set of columns) be automatically derived from purple
numbers of individual table cells?
Regards,
Sonam Chauhan
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