Thanks. I also found the Dynamic Page List extension
(
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList)
which looks promising.
-Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: cohesion [mailto:cohesion@sleepyhead.org]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:54 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Can data from individual pages be merged?
On 4/20/07, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] <sullivan(a)mail.nih.gov> wrote:
One of our wiki users is using a template that has a
table where
values for items in the table are placed. So, for example, the
template has the demographics of each state in the US. Then 50 wiki
pages are created calling the template and each page has the variables
described by the template defined, such as capital
city, population,
size, etc.
Now, what this user would like to do is merge say just
the capital
city information from all 50 pages into one single page. I'm certain
this is possible with SQL routines to extract the data directly from
the database but I was wondering if Mediawiki has a way, or extension,
allowing the variables defined by a template used for
multiple pages
to be retrieved through the wiki itself.
Semantic Mediawiki can do this.
http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
It allows more structured data, and then you can do inline queries for
example. It is pretty powerful, but was designed almost exactly for the
kind of problem you have in your example.
Judson
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