This document will contain brainstorming for ideas to make information in Pandora's Tale Wiki structured and machine-readable.

The advantages of adding structured data to the wiki are:

Making advanced searches on the wiki easier,
Improving compatibility with screenreaders and other accessibility software,
Satisfying the kid in my head who thought machine-readable wikis were a cool idea.

However, we need to be very careful to avoid potential dangers of machine-readability. In particular,

We do not want to make the wiki more susceptible to censorship.
We do not want to make it easier for ad or AI scrapers to extract anything from the wiki.

Would it be possible to generate RDF files and send them exclusively over gemini? That would likely keep them out of sight of mass AI scrapers, but it wouldn't help accessibility for users who only have a web browser installed.

Other implementations

One place I can look for inspiration is the non-MediaWiki wiki software in this WikiIndex category.

Semantic Web on WikiIndex

SofaWiki, a wiki engine

SofaWiki at WikiIndex

SofaWiki website

Jekyll, a web framework

https://wikiindex.org/w/Category:Jekyll

https://jekyllrb.com/

LineageOS wiki, which uses git and Jekyll

https://wikiindex.org/w/LineageOS_Wiki

https://wiki.lineageos.org/

OpenGuides, a wiki engine written in perl and a closely related family of wikis

https://wikiindex.org/w/Category:OpenGuides

https://openguides.org/software

Planetary, an abandoned wiki engine that was only used for the wiki PlanetMath (which is offline).

https://wikiindex.org/w/Category:Planetary

https://web.archive.org/web/20160528225124/https://Trac.MathWeb.org/planetary

I can also look at all non-MediaWiki semantic wiki software with its own Wikipedia page.

Semantic Wikis on Wikipedia

SKYbrary, which uses an unknown wiki engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYbrary

https://skybrary.aero/

Tiki Wiki, a wiki engine written in php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiki_Wiki_CMS_Groupware

https://tiki.org/HomePage

I can also look at MediaWiki extensions which add structured data.

Data management MediaWiki extensions

Bucket
Cargo
NeoWiki (bad)
Semantic MediaWiki
VisualData
Wikibase Repository
WikiDB

See also

One-time tasks, including a bunch of accessibility tasks

The only kind of "AI" we want reading the wiki

The thing we do not want censoring the wiki

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