I'm personally all for Semantic Forms on Wikia, Yu-Gi-Oh! would benefit from it, for inputting new cards.
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Cizaña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > -- "I had a handle on life, but then it broke"
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