[SMW-devel] Getting data out of protected wikis?

2011-11-08 Thread Krabina Bernhard
Dear SMW community, I know that my original question this summer (see below) was slightly off-topic, but as SMW is used for making data available, I think this question deserves (at least a theoretical) discussion: SMW is in many instances used on protected wikis (e. g. in organisations). Even

Re: [SMW-devel] [Semediawiki-user] Getting data out of protected wikis?

2011-11-08 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Which authentication mechanisms can be thought of/could be implemented to enable something like this?? Good question. You can't really do anything from in the wiki itself I think, but you can write some script or API module that is accessible from the outside and can access only the data

Re: [SMW-devel] [Semediawiki-user] Getting data out of protected wikis?

2011-11-08 Thread Dan Bolser
I'd suggest building on (complying with) existing https authentication. On 8 November 2011 09:51, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Which authentication mechanisms can be thought of/could be implemented to enable something like this?? Good question. You can't really do

[SMW-devel] RFC: Value distribution support in result formats

2011-11-08 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey all, I have implemented general support for value distributions in result formats in SMW. This email explains this feature and is meant to gather feedback on it before SMW 1.7 is released. == Goal == Allow visualizing how many times each value in a result occurs, ie allow for creating value

Re: [SMW-devel] [Semediawiki-user] RFC: Value distribution support in result formats

2011-11-08 Thread Krabina Bernhard
Thumbs up, Jeoren Great feature that will definitely enhance our wikis! I don't have a problem with the naming of | distribution= | distributionsort= | distributionlimit= Can it also be used with regular formats like csv or table (resulting in the value for the distribution to be

Re: [SMW-devel] RFC: Value distribution support in result formats

2011-11-08 Thread Dan Bolser
Great work! I really like this feature. It has been requested many times, so it's really cool that its been done. Thanks for doing this. We briefly discussed how this could be implemented a while back, and, although the proposal back then may push the balance of implementation in the direction of