Wikispooks:Semantic Objects

Underpinning WikiSpooks' use of Semantic Mediawiki is a set of objects. None of these are complete as yet. The plan is to create templates first, then forms.

Objects On WikiSpooks

All new pages in the main: namespace must have exactly one object template.
The table below lists the possible templates:

Object	SMW Template	Infobox Template	Form	Notes
Concept	Template:Concept	None	Form:Concept	The least complete object so far. This is a catch all, so if no other template seems to fit, use this one.
Document	Template:Document	None	Form:Document	The most complete object so far, although the template has evolved and still contains some legacy code.
Event	Template:Event	Template:Infobox event	Form:Event	Type= { War, Bombing, Meeting, Scandal, Death }
Group	Template:Group	Template:Infobox organization	Form:Group	Types= { Nation State, Secret Society, Think Tank, Foundations, Lobby, Corporation, NGO }
Person	Template:Person	Template:Infobox person	Form:Person	Types= { ? }
Place	Template:Place	Template:Infobox settlement	Form:Place	Buildings up to provinces
Property	Template:Property	None	Form:Property	Types= { Special, Display, Data }
Timeline	Template:Timeline	None	Form:Timeline	None
Video	Template:Video	None	Form:Website	None
Website	Template:Website	None	Form:Website	Types= { ? }
Year	Template:Year	None	None	None

Object Templates

The semantic object templates are deliberately similar. Custom Wikispooks template code silently sets the Semantic Properties (eventually, almost all parameters will have a corresponding property) and then calls a standrd infobox template from Wikipedia to display the information. These are lightly customised, e.g. with a few extra parameters, such as |wikipedia.

Parameters

All the semantic object templates share a common color coding scheme, summarised below:

Blue parameters are for a single Wikispooks page name (If no suitable page exists, then pick a title for a future page)
Brown parameters are for numbers
Green parameters are for comma-separated lists of page names (Or planned page names).
Navy parameters are for dates
Orange parameters are for booleans. (Usually, either "Yes" or just leave blank).
Purple parameters are URLs.
Violet parameters are slash-separated lists.
Pink parameters are for coordinates.
Crossed out parameters were formerly available, but have been upgraded. Some may still work, but do not use these.

Lists

The templates have a lot of Green parameters. These are for comma-separated lists of pagenames. This means that the "," character is a reserved character and so should not be used in ordinary page titles (though it may be used in redirects). If you wish to indicate that a list is known to be incomplete, use the special word "...", which must be at the end of the list.

Subobjects

In the longer term, a wider choice of objects might be beneficial. To do this, rather than code objects from scratch, most new objects will probably be derived as 'sub-objects' from another object types according to the 'type' parameter. These could then have 'type' parameters of their own, allowing sub-sub-objects etc. where needed. For this reason, use of the |type parameter is strongly recommended.

See Also

• Category:Object Templates
• The talk page for discussion/suggestion of other objects.

Semantic Mediawiki

Semantic Objects Semantic Templates SMW Best Practice Semantic Properties Semantic Forms SMW Known Issues