Wikicompany:Semantic tags

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(Note: This document is an early draft. More details will be added in time.)

Wikicompany is moving to a semantical tagging system, using the Semantic MediaWiki extension.

The main category namespace will not be used anymore for ordering company information. The "Category:" namespace will still be used for ordering other types of information (like the meta information for the Wikicompany project).

1 Reasons
2 Valid Tags
3 Tag examples
4 Open issues
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Reasons

The category system is too strict and maintenance heavy.

Listen to this great presentation "What Time Does to Categories" by Clay Shirky to understand the underlying reasons for this statement.

Easier input system for users.

Better search and browse possibilities.

Better REST web service integration, needed for internal and external content syndication.

[edit] Valid Tags

sector
region - service region (not just the HQ location)
employees - number of employees
founding - founding year
exchange - stock exchange at which a company could be listed
ticker - stock exchange symbol, prefixed with the stock exchange (eg. Euronext.ASML)
product - product or brand names
tag - any other tag (note: this tag might be removed in the future)

[edit] Tag examples

Note the difference between the attribute link (:=), and the relation link (::). The relational link always points to an existing company profile on Wikicompany. An attribute link is just a bit of meta-data about a company.

[[employees:=5]]
[[founding:=1996]]
[[sector:=pizza]]
[[sector:=restaurant]]
[[sector:=pizzaria]]
[[sector:=pasta]]
[[region:=berlin]]
[[partner::Dia Strala]]
[[competitor::Pizza Express]]

[edit] Open issues

Meta-tagging (to describe relations between tags, eg: "berlin city-in germany")
- Interface
- Storage
- Alias tags

Multi-word tags

After reading several arguments for/against multi-word tagging (todo: compile a ref. list of these), the choice was made to only allow one-word tags. This constraint has many benefits (todo: explain these benefits).

The exception to the one-word tag is for internal relation links to company names. These have to be a multi-word to make sense.