I really should play around with SMW more on AoC. It's there but in no-way linked to the iboxes at this stage.... maybe I should just build it in with the existing infoboxes so that it'll also add the relevant SMW coding to the page/s...
*thinks* On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:43 AM, TwoTailedFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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" > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > -- Victor ('Daworm') AoCWiki Sysop (http://aoc.wikia.com/)
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