[Wikia-l] Wikia and Semantics

[TwoTailedFox]

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 <cizania at gmail.com> 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 <dan_the_man at telus.net>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 <dan_the_man at telus.net> <dan_the_man at telus.net> 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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