Extension talk:Semantic Expressiveness
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Latest comment: 13 years ago by Extirpate in topic is this the true meaning of semantic search?
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This looks very interesting. Is there any possibility that you could offer an option to switch the direction of the links, i.e. <?Child::Father::Father::Name> ? That's personally a little more intuitive to me. 76.107.76.96 19:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC) Reply
- That would be what programmers might be used to. But perhaps not authors who are not into programming. So for example
<?Name>, I find it more consistent with<?Name::Site>because the property will always be the first thing you write. Also, the::will read like anof(at least in English language this makes sense, not sure about some other languages though). It might be an option to make it configurable at some point. - Are there really some good arguments against this syntax? I have discussed this before and besides the point that some programming languages might do it the other way around, I didn't find any. Danwe (talk) 21:49, 7 May 2012 (UTC) Reply
- I prefer "the Child's Father's Father's Name". I imagine typing the code out and saying in my head something like that... it's just easier for me to walk forward down that path than backward.
- Of course, it is just a matter of personal preference. I can't think of any objective reason to pick one over the other. Perhaps it might be easier for people writing right-to-left languages to think of it in one way than the other.
- Well, one (gentle) reason is that SMW already does relations from left-to-right. 76.107.76.96 02:52, 12 May 2012 (UTC) Reply
That's really cool, please keep developing the extension! <?weight> is definitely better than {{#show:{{PAGENAME}}|?weight}} Katkov Yury (talk) 10:54, 10 August 2012 (UTC) Reply
really wonderfully extension. Expecting the any updates! many people have not realized what's this is cabable of, excellent! Extirpate (talk) 09:43, 1 June 2013 (UTC) Reply