On 27/02/2008, DanTMan dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
Hmmm... "relationships"
Whether or not you've fixed the problem. Have you taken a look at Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Templates? What you're doing seams a lot more like what SMW is meant to do than what DPL is for.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
Thanks for the suggestion, Dan.
No, I haven't looked at Semantic MediaWiki in great detail. Setting up this wiki was one of those proof of concepts projects which turned into a "we needed this yesterday".
As far as I could see, using dpl has the advantage that the infobox templates can be put in separate pages, so that they can easily be replaced, and can also be called from the final article itself.
As I explained, we're starting out with a minimal set of data, because we're currently more interested in the structure, and the final customer-service-servers articles where people can add free text (instructions on how to repair things for starters).
The idea is to later create a new set of infobox templates which will be pre-loaded with more detailed data from the CMDBs, but for which we will also write a front-end so that users can only pick predefined values for certain variables (or 'properties' in semantic speak). If the variables are embedded in the customer-service-servers articles, I wouldn't know how to add more variables automatically, other than starting to manipulate the article data in the database, which I prefer not to.
But then, there still is a lot I don't know about Mediawiki and its extensions, so feel free to correct me or point me to better ways of doing things. Always happy to learn.
Kind regards,
Herta