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.
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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 | This is the catch all, so if no other template seems to fit, use this one. |
| Document | Template:Document | None | Form:Document | Like website, this has non-standard presentation (No infobox). |
| 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 | The most used object. |
| 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 | Currently only used for sub-pages named "Timeline". |
| Video | Template:Video | None | Form:Website | None |
| Website | Template:Website | None | Form:Website | Non-standard presentation (No infobox) which might be updated. |
| Year | Template:Year | None | None | Only for calendar years, e.g. 1984 |
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 parameterswere 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.
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