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As someone who maintains the largest Futurama wiki (albeit not as active anymore, but I still host it), I can recognise the problems that Wikipedia is faced wit
by Svip 13y ago
As someone who maintains the largest Futurama wiki (albeit not as active anymore, but I still host it), I can recognise the problems that Wikipedia is faced with. Of course, at a much much smaller scale, as we only have 3,000+ content pages (which is a lot for a Futurama wiki).
And we have had to deal with the usefulness of indexing articles appropriately. That is; giving them categories (and whether new categories is going to help anyone). But since our wiki is so much smaller, we don't use bots but do it by hand (although, we do have one bot to do some basic cleaning up, but nothing truly intelligent).
And the issue isn't just with Wikipedia or our wiki; it's practically with every wiki (even non-MediaWiki wikis). This has led to the creation of Semantic MediaWiki, an extension that is supposed to maintain more rational relationships of data and make it easier indexable.
But most wikis I've seen using Semantic MediaWiki, doesn't really look like a content site, but rather a data site. Which is nice for the purpose, but it makes you wonder if MediaWiki really was the right choice to begin with.