Semantic MediaWiki
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We started using Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) for some "smart" functions of this wiki around June 2019. Feel free to join the effort!
How we use it so far:
- giving equipment pages properties like "Tutor::" and "Location::" so they can easily be listed accordingly
- integrating properties for images into InfoBoxes as a potential way to auto-generate navigation gallerys
- first experiment: Metal Workshop/Gallery (grabbing HasImage and HasCaption from MachineInfoBoxes and ToolInfoBoxes)
- making projects listable by their InfoBox dates with Property:ProjectDate
- experimental: adding interesting property tables for tool types such as cutting depths for saws
- what else can you think of?
Cheat Sheet
This is not supposed to replace the SMW documentation, but some things are nice to remember/share once you've finally found them:
- Special:Ask - "sandbox" page for SMW queries (help)
- lets you practice selecting pages with auto-complete of parameters
- assigning properties
- in-text annotation:
[[Property::value]](only "value", or its|alt text, is displayed) - hidden annotation: use the set function
- alternatively, you could enter
|(the space is important!) to the end of a property (e.g.[[Has demo::test| ]]) which might be necessary in certain template elements
- alternatively, you could enter
- in-text annotation:
- list of possible result formats (e.g. table or gallery)
- how to filter for values on property pages
- unions of results - how to use "OR" instead of the (assumed) "AND" between two queries
- useful to make our MachineInfoBox find Tutors for Introductions to the "type" OR the "machine name", for example
- can also be used to embed machines of different types into the same page (if we want to do that)
