Semantic Content

From Nat's Scratch Pad

Semantic MediaWiki enables wiki communities to make some of their knowledge computer-processable, e.g. to answer the above question. The hard problem for the computer is to find out what the words in a wiki page (e.g. about cities) mean. Articles contain many names, but which one is the current mayor? Humans can easily grasp the problem by looking into a language edition of Wikipedia that they do not understand (Korean is a good start unless you are fluent there). While single tokens (names, numbers, …) might be readable, it is impossible to understand their relevance in the article. Similarly, computers need some help for making sense of wiki texts.

learn more about Semantic MediaWiki here: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_Semantic_MediaWiki

The category box below is one basic example of how you can tag pages to make searching easier... there is much more to the semantic wiki than this though!