That sounds very good. I just realized that you asked before about the
Google Summer of Code - there's a student who's applying to the GSoC to work
on adding full support for mapping services to SMW - most notably updating
Semantic Layers, but also, if there's time, adding support for services like
Google Earth and Yahoo Maps. I'm signed up to be his mentor. I was planning
to write more about it once we knew whether his application was accepted or
not.
-Yaron
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Sergey Chernyshev <
sergey.chernys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't see any complaints about this functionality so I'll go ahead and
> check it into the repository.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sergey
>
>
> --
> Sergey Chernyshev
> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Sergey Chernyshev <
> sergey.chernys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As promised, I added "Show embed code" link to Special:Ask page:
>>
>> http://www.techpresentations.org/Special:Ask?title=Special%3AAsk&q=[[Category%3ARFC]]&po=%3FRFC+date%0D%0A%3FRFC+title%0D%0A%3FRFC+author%0D%0A%3FRFC+document+URL%0D%0A&eq=yes&p=format%3Dbroadtable&eq=yes<http://www.techpresentations.org/Special:Ask?title=Special%3AAsk&q=%5B%5BCategory%3ARFC%5D%5D&po=%3FRFC+date%0D%0A%3FRFC+title%0D%0A%3FRFC+author%0D%0A%3FRFC+document+URL%0D%0A&eq=yes&p=format%3Dbroadtable&eq=yes>
>>
>> When clicked, it shows the code for {{#ask:...}} parser function that you
>> can use to embed current results (including format) into a page anywhere on
>> your wiki.
>>
>> I think that together with format selector, it'll help people create more
>> data-driven wikis. So if nobody objects, I'll check it in for all to enjoy.
>> Patch can be seen here:
>> http://www.techpresentations.org/SMW_Ask_embed.patch /
>> http://www.techpresentations.org/SMW_Ask_embed.patch.html (colorized)
>>
>> Also, during development, I noticed a few bugs or missing features of
>> Special:Ask page:
>>
>> - Not all formatters work on Special:Ask, for example googlemap,
>> debug, count and calendar don't work or display something different from
>> what I'd expect them to do
>> - count and order parameters always get set in the code so even when
>> they are not defined, in the embed code they appear with empty values. I
>> decided not to filter out parameters with empty values as some parameters
>> might actually be meaningful. It's possible that count and order are just
>> not initialized properly when $wgRequest->getVal( 'order' ) and
>> $wgRequest->getText( 'sort' ) are used unconditionally
>> - there is no way to display any meaningful title for a formatter or
>> know whenever to include one in the list or not (debug) - current
>> formatter
>> classes are limited in this sense
>> - there is no way to configure formatter on Special:Ask page except
>> for just asking user for a list of additional attributes similar how
>> printouts are asked for. This is limiting the use of formatting feature
>> and
>> renders some formatters completely useless (template, for example). I
>> think
>> it's worth looking into expanding SMWResultPrinter to carry more metadata
>> and maybe form definition for accepted parameters.
>>
>> I hope to have time in the future to address some of these, but don't know
>> when I'll have more time for it.
>>
>> Markus, Denny, let me know if it's a good idea to add these into Bugzilla
>> to keep track of them.
>>
>> BTW, is SMW participating in GSoC?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Sergey
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sergey Chernyshev
>> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>>
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