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I've studied Lojban for 2 days in the naive attempt to use it for knowledge base technology but then saw a talk about a poem by Lewis Carol translated to Lojban
by wrnr 5y ago
I've studied Lojban for 2 days in the naive attempt to use it for knowledge base technology but then saw a talk about a poem by Lewis Carol translated to Lojban and dropped that effort because it is human unfriendly.
The choice of using function is at least an improvement over triplet based systems like Lojban and RDF, similar how Wolfram Alfa uses glorified s-expressions to have a heterogeneous language for data and computations.
That said I really think the final point of the article is the most important, Wikipedia lacks a user friendly way of editing and should really have a WYSIWYG editor to appeal to a wider audience of contributors. From talking to engineers at Wikipedia I understand this has in part to do with wikiscript and all the extensions used result in a language that is context dependent and can't be parsed but must be executed while parsing, sort of like human language. Haha. Anyway I think the situation is lame and they should use their 100 million endowment to build a web editor. If you like contact me I've used prose-mirror.
- thinkingemote 5y agowikipedia has a WYSIWYG editor enabled on most wikis for several years now. Its often the default editor. I prefer using it. It's called the visual editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor It must have been almost a decade ago since you talked to the engineers, as the alpha version was released in 2012. Time really does fly!
- wrnr 5y agoYes that true it was a long time ago. I checked it now, and it looks decent, but still they should not hide it so well.