Comment The Semantic Wiki (Score 1) 478
How should Wikipedia face these challenges? Scrap the current monolithic article model, and begin publishing incremental edits in XML instead.
This way, independent third-parties could serve customized edit filters of the main Wikipedia database. For instance, one site could serve only articles composed of edits made by scholars. Another site could serve only articles composed of edits approved by a board of editors whose particular editorial style you like. Yet another site could serve edits based on mass moderation. And yet another site could allow you to select from all the available edits to an article in order to tailor the exact article which meets your particular demands. Companies like Google could mirror the edit database and apply their own proprietary search and ranking technologies. Contributors could discuss and evaluate single edits in detail, and so on.
Wikis has opened up editing. Now let's open up viewing as well.
This way, independent third-parties could serve customized edit filters of the main Wikipedia database. For instance, one site could serve only articles composed of edits made by scholars. Another site could serve only articles composed of edits approved by a board of editors whose particular editorial style you like. Yet another site could serve edits based on mass moderation. And yet another site could allow you to select from all the available edits to an article in order to tailor the exact article which meets your particular demands. Companies like Google could mirror the edit database and apply their own proprietary search and ranking technologies. Contributors could discuss and evaluate single edits in detail, and so on.
Wikis has opened up editing. Now let's open up viewing as well.
