mmm most of the games wikis will surely benefit with a form to capture data for their infoboxes since the issue its always how to put it easy for people to fill information across tons of items (eg dofus has arround 9000 items) Ciz
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Daniel Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Semantic Forms does wonders for usability. SF does take a minor bit of > work to setup, creating forms that is. However, after that it works > brilliantly. #arraymap and #arraymaptemplate allow input to be in formats > such as comma separated lists, so data input is easier... > ie: I could have an | affiliations = key for an infobox. Accept "Akatsuki, > Kumogakure" and it could be rewritten to "[[Affiliation::Akatsuki]], > [[Affiliation::Kumogakure]]" meaning that the semantic attributes are > applied into the simple input. (This is far cleaner than any use of multiple > #explodes that you could do). > > As for a good live example... Take a look at my own wiki... > http://wiki-tools.com/wiki/WikiVid > Inside the infobox try clicking on the edit infobox button. You get pointed > to an edit form for the infobox, which is actually transcluded into the > current page. It cuts down on cruft inside the code (stops infobox templates > from bumping page content down so you have to scroll to edit), and makes the > actual editing of infobox templates far easier. All the inputs are sitting > in front of you, and if you are only allowed certain values, then you have > nice data inputs for selecting one of them. > > That's actually a kind of interface I would like to trial over on the > Narutopedia. Unfortunately, I can't even get the new Jutsu infoboxes working > without the least of input handling parserfunctions like #arraymap (Though > some of my WikiCode functions might make things easier in the future). > > > You honestly don't need to be familiar with Semantic MediaWiki to use it, > only have someone who can create templates for you to use. > Oh... another one, Halo appears to have a mode for editing semantics within > a page. So that kind of thing might make actual use of SMW much easier. > > ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) of: > > Angela wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Daniel Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So it's about time I asked... how long until Wikia starts supporting > more semantic extensions? > > > I'm not sure that people know enough about how to use what we already > have to warrant prioritising the other parts of it yet. > > Are the parts we don't yet have easier to use, or will they add > complication that might put off users who aren't yet familiar with > Semantic MediaWiki? > > There hasn't been much progress on either of these wikis yet, even > though both of them have a lot of potential to be made much more > useful with these features. > http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Special:SemanticStatisticshttp://yellowikis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:SemanticStatistics > > Angela > >
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