User talk:Kim Bruning/Abe Lincoln

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Okay here's a demo I made for User:Geogre

What I've done is taken a shortened version of Abraham Lincoln and put it up at Complete. I'm not aiming at a perfectly encyclopedic quality article here, I'm just to demonstrating principles.

Okay, so then we can split that up:1 2 3.

Hmm, can we actually proove somehow that this is just a different view of the same content?

Yes actually we can. View Combined. Ok, doesn't seem very different from Complete now does it?

Hmm, how about you view the source for that page under Edit This Page.

Hey! Turns out that I can actually instruct the wiki to transform the data, and provide a view that is identical to Complete! Even though the exact way the data is stored is slightly different.

The ability to make this kind of thing visible is new to wikipedia, the method to specify underlying information already existed in the database, as a property of the wiki. This is a deliberate property, it allows people to cross reference topics easily.

What I'm really trying to show is that our data set is semantically equivalent in each separate form, and that we can actually instruct the wikipedia to display this information in multiple views.

As a final demo, check out User talk:Kim Bruning/Abe Lincoln/Assasinations.