Hi Peter,
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Peter Brooks <peter.bro...@kchclinics.com>
wrote:
> I'm trying to think about this in a more semantic way.
>
> Surely, part of the point of semantics is to allow rules to be governed by
> them.
>
> If I could create a property, say '[[page_visibility::group_X]]' then
> it would make sense for the wiki to understand, from that, that the
> rule for this property would be found on the property page
> 'page_visibility' and it could apply those rules to group_X. Does that
> make sense?
>
I disagree with this - I've stated this opinion before on these mailing
lists, but it's important to differentiate between data that applies to the
real world, and data that applies to the wiki. The fact that "Ulysses" was
written by James Joyce is real-world data; the fact that the page on the
wiki about "Ulysses" should only be editable or viewable by some people is
wiki-specific data. In my opinion, SMW only has an obligation to handle the
former: in some cases, it does handle the latter (like all of the special
properties relating to page creation), but I view that strictly as a bonus,
not an integral part of the software.
I don't mean to derail this thread - other people may have more of an
opinion on the technical specifics - but I just wanted to note that.
-Yaron
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