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Semantic MediaWiki/Envisaged applications - Meta

Semantic MediaWiki/Envisaged applications
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Here is the place to articulate your wildest fantasies on what could be done with all this semantic data!
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Inside the Wiki

* Powerful Searching: all the weird queries stated above should work (given that someone writes a user interface to ask such queries!)
* Most of the functionality of todays Personendaten/Wikidata, with the exception of some envisioned features of Wikidata (like customized editing forms or predefined data-classes in MediaWiki). Full Wikidata functionality is somewhat orthogonal: it is more tailored towards scenarios that require uniform and rich data-input (e.g. Wiktionary), while Semantic MediaWiki aims at more loosely structured settings (e.g. Wikipedia). But the searching and sorting functions should be fully available very early.
* Dynamically created pages: abolish plain article listings and overly specific categories and create consistent lists and galleries automatically
* New browsing functions: search queries that are simple can be executed quickly. Links on/below article pages can refer to search results, so as to provide a kind of "find similar topics"-link.
* Use Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons as a free image database ("I want a picture with a child and a cat on it").

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Offline analysis

* Translate semantic data by interlanguage links and thus compare Wikipedias of any language
* Check for possible errors or inconsistencies to improve the quality of Wikipedia
* Create complex statistics from Wikipedia dumps

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External applications

* Enable specialized desktop apps to query Wikipedias knowledge selectively (or to ship with some frozen part of it):
o teaching applications (e.g. a quiz game on geographic data)
o media players (gather things like discographies from Wikipedia, along the lines of what amaroK starts doing today with XML-data from Amazon)
o scientific applications (anybody needs a huge classification of species?)
o and much much more
* External web services:
o sophisticated or specialized Wikipedia search engines
o question answering based on Wikipedia (e.g. integrated in major web searching engines)

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