From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Mon Jun 1 01:12:03 2009 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:12:03 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: Fraternal greetings from an administrator of the Genealogy Wikia Message-ID: <001b01c9e255$f96f7aa0$0201a8c0@home> (Something in here is sure to be of value) ----- Original Message ----- From: Eugene Mednikov To: Robin-P Cc: Vladislav Novikov Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Fraternal greetings from an administrator of the Genealogy Wikia Greetings, Robin! We glad to hear from you! Exchanging ideas is nice. I've got some inspiration from your site already. We mainly use custom special pages for GUI and SMW as back-end. I assume you mostly use existing extensions and want to switch to Semantic Forms for data input. We've used SF before and still haven't transferred everything to special pages, so we may be able to help you with SF integration. We're doing massive redesign right now, so soon you'll be able to see much more interesting stuff. We're adding social network features, events, organizations and timelines. As a small correction I advise you to use tree links in form: http://www.jewage.org/wiki/en/Special:GTreeViewer/Adam_%28_%29 instead of http://www.jewage.org/wiki/en/Special:GTreeViewer/Profile:Adam_%28_%29 Respectfully yours, Eugene Mednikov Mobile: +972-54-4520187 Email: eugene at mednikov.info Skype, GTalk: eugenem79 LiveJournal: http://eugenem.livejournal.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenem79 JewAge: http://jewage.org/wiki/Special:JPersonProfile/Eugene_Mednikov On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Robin-P wrote: Hallo! I found your site while looking for sites that use Semantic MediaWiki. We are clearly in the same field and might benefit from sharing ideas. I've added half a dozen links to your site and expect to add several more. We started SMW less than a month ago. Not sure if it has reached "Alpha" yet! You say you have reached only that stage, but it looks pretty good to me (apart from the Main Page). Your SMW specialist could get an idea of how far we have progressed by keeping an eye on the "Notes" page of our SMW developer: http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/User:Phlox/2009_05_notes Kind regards [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site, and my easy introduction to it at http://squidoo.com/Genealogy-Wiki. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/genealogy-l/attachments/20090604/e40a609f/attachment.html From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Mon Jun 8 17:05:07 2009 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 05:05:07 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: [Semediawiki-user] Filter for browsing Message-ID: <036201c9e85b$46cbd040$0201a8c0@home> This any use to anyone? [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site, and my easy introduction to it at http://squidoo.com/Genealogy-Wiki. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Krabina Bernhard" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:28 AM Subject: Re: [Semediawiki-user] Filter for browsing > Hi, > > as Yaron said in his reply the number of organisations would be hold in an > additional property. > > If it isn't done while entering the organisations via the form, it should be > possible to include a 'count_organisations' template on each project page end > that template could contain something like > > [[no_orgs::{{#sask: pagename={{FULLPAGENAME}}|?Organisations|return=co unt}}| ]] > > (would also work if any organisation properties are added or deleted outside the > form or (with nary parameter) if organisation is a multi-value property) > and than that property can be used in an ask query to select those projects with > more than x organisations. > > Cheers, > Gu > > Quoting Krabina Bernhard : > > > Hi, > > > > this is a question related to Semantic Drilldown, SemanticQueryFormTool > > and/or Semantic Forms. > > > > I have a page about projects. The project partners are listed using Semantic > > Forms filling the property "Organisation" that can hold many entries (all > > project partners of a project). > > > > Now I'd like to have a browsing interface, where I can set a filter: show all > > projects with the "Topic=somehing" and the number of "Organisations" greater > > than 5. I think Semantic Drilldown does not give me that. > > > > SQFT can look for pages with the property "Organisation" and display how many > > there are. > > > > As I have understood it, this cannot be done at the moment? > > > > Would it be possible to add a hidden field in Semantic Forms that holds the > > number of organisations as a property (calculated by SQFT". Probably not, as > > the number of values in the property is only known after saving the page one > > time? > > > > Is there a solution to this other than letting the user input 5 names of > > organisations separated by comma and after that "5" in another field called > > "number of organisations"? > > > > Regards, > > Bernhard > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ > > OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises > > looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest > > innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and > > enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. > > Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get > > _______________________________________________ > > Semediawiki-user mailing list > > Semediawiki-user at lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > Semediawiki-user at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Tue Jun 9 05:15:43 2009 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:15:43 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Family of Hermann Billung (?-973) - http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Hermann_Billung_(%3F-973) References: Message-ID: <038e01c9e8c1$574f0b60$0201a8c0@home> One of Familypedia's main contributors has asked me to post this query for the expert adjudication that I said this group was good for. "Can someone please check Europaisch Stammtafeln Bund I tafel 10. "It is quoted on the net as saying that Billung of Saxony Count of Saxony (-967) married Alda, a Frank. I suspect that Ermengarde de Nantes (900-?) is a later forgery. "Thurstan 05:48, 27 April 2009 (UTC) " On my talk page he expanded a little: "It seems there is a mismatch between the English and the French versions of Wikipedia about his ancestry. I noticed you mentioned taking questions to the medieval genealogy newsgroup for arbitration. Since I don't do newsgroups, would you please take the question to them? In particular, are Billung IV von Sachsen (900-967) and Ermengarde de Nantes (900-?) (descendant of Charlemagne) reliably attested? Did he really have a brother Wichmann Billung (916-967)?" [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site, and my easy introduction to it at http://squidoo.com/Genealogy-Wiki. From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Sun Jun 14 10:40:52 2009 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:40:52 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Wikia's genealogy site is really progressing References: <036201c9e85b$46cbd040$0201a8c0@home> Message-ID: <059701c9ecdc$98622960$0201a8c0@home> If you've not been reading the site forums in recent days, please look at the bottom couple of screenfuls of http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:SMW Person-page data entry with forms is now possible. Easier than info pages, and it brings many (and eventually most) of the advantages of Semantic MediaWiki, including Search and probably Drilldown. [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site, and my easy introduction to it at http://squidoo.com/Genealogy-Wiki. From wmwillis at earthlink.net Sun Jun 14 13:32:38 2009 From: wmwillis at earthlink.net (Bill) Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:32:38 -0400 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Wikia's genealogy site is really progressing In-Reply-To: <059701c9ecdc$98622960$0201a8c0@home> References: <036201c9e85b$46cbd040$0201a8c0@home> <059701c9ecdc$98622960$0201a8c0@home> Message-ID: Hi Dallan I presume you are on the Genelaogy Wiki mailing list so probably received the following message from Robin. Phlox has added a forms capability to the Wiki, similar to what's on other genealogy wiki's. Still no effective GedCom import capability, but I suspect that's to come. As you pointed out once upon a time, developing such a program is not exactly a walk in the park. However, what's potentially of interest in what they've added now is the Semantic Wiki idea. I'm not sure this is a big deal, though Phlox and Robin seem to think it is. Am I missing something? Bill On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Robin-P wrote: > If you've not been reading the site forums in > recent days, please look at the bottom couple of > screenfuls of > http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:SMW > > Person-page data entry with forms is now possible. > Easier than info pages, and it brings many (and > eventually most) of the advantages of Semantic > MediaWiki, including Search and probably > Drilldown. > > [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, > 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, > New Zealand > Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 > http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp > And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free > cooperative MediaWiki site, and my easy > introduction to it at > http://squidoo.com/Genealogy-Wiki. > > _______________________________________________ > Genealogy-l mailing list > Genealogy-l at wikia.com > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy-l From wmwillis at earthlink.net Sun Jun 14 13:35:20 2009 From: wmwillis at earthlink.net (Bill) Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:35:20 -0400 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Wikia's genealogy site is really progressing In-Reply-To: References: <036201c9e85b$46cbd040$0201a8c0@home> <059701c9ecdc$98622960$0201a8c0@home> Message-ID: Well, I certainly screwed that up. That message was intended to go privately to Dallan. My apologizes if anyone was offended. Bill On Jun 14, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Bill wrote: > Hi Dallan > > I presume you are on the Genelaogy Wiki mailing list so probably > received the following message from Robin. > > Phlox has added a forms capability to the Wiki, similar to what's on > other genealogy wiki's. Still no effective GedCom import capability, > but I suspect that's to come. > As you pointed out once upon a time, developing such a program is not > exactly a walk in the park. > > However, what's potentially of interest in what they've added now is > the Semantic Wiki idea. I'm not sure this is a big deal, though > Phlox and Robin seem to think it is. > Am I missing something? > > Bill > > > On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Robin-P wrote: > >> If you've not been reading the site forums in >> recent days, please look at the bottom couple of >> screenfuls of >> http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:SMW >> >> Person-page data entry with forms is now possible. >> Easier than info pages, and it brings many (and >> eventually most) of the advantages of Semantic >> MediaWiki, including Search and probably >> Drilldown. >> >> [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, >> 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, >> New Zealand >> Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 >> http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp >> And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free >> cooperative MediaWiki site, and my easy >> introduction to it at >> http://squidoo.com/Genealogy-Wiki. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Genealogy-l mailing list >> Genealogy-l at wikia.com >> http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy-l > > _______________________________________________ > Genealogy-l mailing list > Genealogy-l at wikia.com > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy-l From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Mon Jun 15 16:24:34 2009 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin Patterson) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:24:34 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: [Wikia-l] ShowHide - FYI Message-ID: <062901c9edd5$c530daa0$0201a8c0@home> [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site, and my easy introduction to it at http://squidoo.com/Genealogy-Wiki. ----- Original Message ----- From: George Pribul (Kirkburn) To: Central Wikia Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:28 AM Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] ShowHide If I am reading correctly, this is an update for the JS shown on http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Dynamic_navigation ? If it supports all the original functionality and is as good as you make it sound, it sounds like it could be a great recommendation for our users. :) ------------------------------------- George Pribul (Kirkburn) Associate Product Manager, Wikia Inc. 2009/6/15 Daniel Friesen Just thought I'd let everyone know I rewrote the ShowHide (Wikipedia's collapsible tables and NavFrame code) to make use of jQuery which Wikia is now using. The resulting code is around 100 lines shorter than the WP code (basically half the size), supports the "collapsed" class in BOTH collapsible tables and NavFrame (The code being circulated around Wikia doesn't seam to support individual pre-collapsed NavFrames), works with whatever elements you want it to (NavFrame can work on things other than just divs), and loads quickly unlike the original WP code (jQuery's ready event is more reliable than MediaWiki's built in addOnloadHook which sometimes can actually end up being called considerably late in comparison; I tested using MW's onload and jQuery's onload on separate types of show/hide and jQuery fired considerably earlier than the MW code which fired quite late after the page was already loaded). The code is available on the dev wiki and can be easily included into any wiki using the short snippet: |importScriptPage('ShowHide/code.js', 'dev');| http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/ShowHide -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikia Community Mailing List. For information and subscriptions see http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l Need staff help? Try http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contact -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Wikia Community Mailing List. For information and subscriptions see http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l Need staff help? Try http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contact -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/genealogy-l/attachments/20090616/093b83d3/attachment.html From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Sat Jun 20 06:28:43 2009 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:28:43 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: [Semediawiki-user] External Data version 0.7: access to databasesand LDAP servers Message-ID: <006601c9f170$5c631bc0$0201a8c0@home> FYI ----- Original Message ----- From: Yaron Koren To: Semantic MediaWiki Users Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 4:25 AM Subject: [Semediawiki-user] External Data version 0.7: access to databasesand LDAP servers Hi everyone, A new version of External Data, 0.7, has been released: I usually don't announce new releases on this list, but this is a major one, since External Data now supports retrieving data from two new sources: relational database, and LDAP servers. This excellent new functionality was contributed by David Macdonald. This new access is handled by the new #get_db_data and #get_ldap_data functions, which can read from database tables and LDAP servers provided you've pre-configured them in LocalSettings.php; you can then display them in the same way as data retrieved from APIs. (Of course, there are privacy risks associated with both of these, and they should really only be enabled by people who know what they're doing.) You can see more information here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data -Yaron -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-user mailing list Semediawiki-user at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/genealogy-l/attachments/20090620/00bf7064/attachment.html From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Sat Jun 20 16:44:55 2009 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:44:55 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: [Semediawiki-user] Disputed Birth Dates Message-ID: <008601c9f1c6$7105e480$0201a8c0@home> ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Skelly To: semediawiki-user at lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:25 AM Subject: [Semediawiki-user] Disputed Birth Dates I'm working on a local history-genealogy project. Some of the people have disputed, yet unresolved, birth dates. (Such as Francis Hopkinson a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.) Some of these are supported by sources that are considered credible such as a contemporaneous diary of a mid-wife vs. a contemporaneous family bible entry, there are also numerous instances of repeating the disputed birth dates in otherwise reliable secondary sources such as grave markers and newspapers. This is a pattern that applies to many other situations (such as date of moving from one location to another, attendance at schools, titles or appointments, etc.) These dates and other attributes are highly significant and are likely basis for future queries. Any suggestions as to how to handle this? (If this request should be directed to another group or service, please feel free to forward it.) Thanks in advance for any help. Michael Skelly Bordentown Heritage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? 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A brief article at http://genealogy.com/37_neill.html titled "Organize the Inconclusive with Discrepancy Charts" gives a brief explanation and tabular chart form that may be useful to SMW community when addressing this frequent pattern. Best regards, Michael Skelly -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. 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