[Potlatch-dev] Website and Wikipedia information

[Emilie Laffray]

On 24 August 2010 03:38, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum for this question.
>
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Sorry if it is the wrong forum for this answer.


> A small pet peeve of mine is that we have a great tag "website" (and
> "wikipedia") which seem very underused.
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A big pet peeve of mine is that we have a disgusting tag called "website"
(and even worse "wikipedia"), which seem to be already very overused. I
strongly believe that they should not be used in the first place (well at
least the wikipedia one).
The main reason for this argument is international support. While I
appreciate things like name:fr, name:ja and the rest, I really don't want to
see a wikipedia:fr and the rest of those in the database. I am not
exagerating some people have already been talking about it partly because
they want the link to be in their language. (don't get me started on
explicit name:*= which are identical to name= ) I think we already have
sometimes way too many tags that serves no real purpose. (And of course, I
am more than biaised on Wikipedia).
In addition, I believe it is more Wikipedia that should be linking to us in
the end that the reverse. I am fully aware of the issues that comes to mind
like no constant ID (we can argue for days on that topic), but I believe it
is the right way in the end. Ideally, when semantic web will clean up its
act, it should be done that way.

Emilie Laffray
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