Wikispooks talk:Community portal

Welcome to the WikiSpooks Community discussion page. This is the place for Wikispooks discussions which relate to the site as a whole, rather than just particular pages. All Wikispooks editors are encouraged to contribute thoughts relevant to developing the software and community behind the Wikispooks project.

Semantic Mediawiki

Most pages have some input from SMW, which should give an overview of what it is capable of. You do not need to know how to program SMW to use it, or to help develop it by suggesting new ways it could be used. Below are two lists, in order of descending priority

Modifications

Ways to improve how SMW is currently implemented.

• The "|perpetrators" field for events is too simplistic, since it doesn't distinguish, for example, the 'hired guns' from those who do the hiring.
• The "|membership" field for groups is too simplistic, since it doesn't allow for dates and grades of membership (e.g. 'chairman')
• Template:Video and Template:Image fulfill similar functions to Template:Document, but they evolved separately.
  • The semantic objects produced should be standardised for compatibility

New Ideas

New things that could be programmed with SMW.

• Quotations by one person could appear on the page of whoever made them (or pointers to them)
• Better integration with subpages
• ...

Subpages

These are functional, but more standardisation could be helpful to get more value out of them.

• Integration with SMW. e.g. A fixed set of subpages which could be interpreted by software if found ".../murder", ".../perpatrators" etc.
• .../Quotes - for quotations relevant to an article, or quotes made by someone