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	<title>Comments on: Wikimedia Foundation selects nine students for summer software projects</title>
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		<title>By: Mazin Issa</title>
		<link>http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/23/wmf-selects-9-students-for-gsoc/comment-page-1/#comment-106359</link>
		<dc:creator>Mazin Issa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sumana, this is the first time I hear of Wikidata! Thank you so much for the heads up and the links! It seems very exciting and it thrills me. I hope I can contribute to such amazing project.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sumana, this is the first time I hear of Wikidata! Thank you so much for the heads up and the links! It seems very exciting and it thrills me. I hope I can contribute to such amazing project.</p>
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		<title>By: Sumana Harihareswara</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sumana Harihareswara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mazin, we&#039;re working on the structured data side of it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikidata&lt;/a&gt; and on reducing the need to use wikitext markup with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the visual editor&lt;/a&gt;.  If you need more help, I encourage you to visit &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;our mailing lists and chat channels&lt;/a&gt; to talk with the Wikimedia technical community to help you find solutions!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mazin, we&#8217;re working on the structured data side of it with <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata" rel="nofollow">Wikidata</a> and on reducing the need to use wikitext markup with <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor" rel="nofollow">the visual editor</a>.  If you need more help, I encourage you to visit <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication" rel="nofollow">our mailing lists and chat channels</a> to talk with the Wikimedia technical community to help you find solutions!</p>
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		<title>By: Mazin Issa</title>
		<link>http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/23/wmf-selects-9-students-for-gsoc/comment-page-1/#comment-106311</link>
		<dc:creator>Mazin Issa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve created several processors that process XWiki Code (MediaWiki raw format). One converts it to plain text, another gets the links (I discovered the api call that gets the interwiki links (action=query&amp;list=links) later on, which is different anyways because order is important, alphabetical order has no semantics and as thus information entropy is reduced when using the api call).

Anyways, this comment is to communicate a frustration: WHY is the WORLD&#039;s ENCYPLODIA uses a format that is messy like XWiki Raw Code? This is not acceptable. A better method should be researched that works with the nature of public editing.

A major disadvantage with XWiki raw format (append ?action=raw to any Wikipedia url to see it) is that it doesn&#039;t separate information and layout. We should be past that point. Further more, information is unstructured. It&#039;s worse than a messy library, programmatically speaking.

I wish I can come up with a solution. HELP!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve created several processors that process XWiki Code (MediaWiki raw format). One converts it to plain text, another gets the links (I discovered the api call that gets the interwiki links (action=query&amp;list=links) later on, which is different anyways because order is important, alphabetical order has no semantics and as thus information entropy is reduced when using the api call).</p>
<p>Anyways, this comment is to communicate a frustration: WHY is the WORLD&#8217;s ENCYPLODIA uses a format that is messy like XWiki Raw Code? This is not acceptable. A better method should be researched that works with the nature of public editing.</p>
<p>A major disadvantage with XWiki raw format (append ?action=raw to any Wikipedia url to see it) is that it doesn&#8217;t separate information and layout. We should be past that point. Further more, information is unstructured. It&#8217;s worse than a messy library, programmatically speaking.</p>
<p>I wish I can come up with a solution. HELP!</p>
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		<title>By: Joseph Gitch</title>
		<link>http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/23/wmf-selects-9-students-for-gsoc/comment-page-1/#comment-104765</link>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Gitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[wow this is nice]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wow this is nice</p>
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