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by Alex3917
5196 days ago
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This is actually a startup idea I've had for a while now. It's a great idea in theory, but it's very tricky in practice. Facts have a mysterious way of vanishing if you look closely enough at them, and the raw numbers themselves don't actually tell you anything. The part that's actually interesting is: - The methodology behind the numbers - What we think is most likely the case based on the evidence available - How each fact connects with other facts - What we think we should do based on the evidence available Being able to embed facts is definitely a cool use case, but unless you have all the other stuff backing it up when you click the link back to the database then it's pretty much worthless. And curating these sorts of epistemological discussions and third party analyses isn't something that really fits within the Wikimedia mission, so I doubt they will even try. Because of this I doubt their implementation of the project will be successful, although I do think it's a space that ultimately has potential. |
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If there were no operations, math would just be numbers on their own -- and what fun is that?
The problem is that the relations turn it into the Semantic Web, and after trying and failing to crack that nut for so long, everyone is turned off of it. Which is too bad, because what was failing was the approach. Trying several shipping routes to the New World and failing each time doesn't mean that the New World doesn't exist.