Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any help you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use the MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue tracker within it. Here's basically how it works:
* Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a particular prefix in its name * Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something like this: * StatusOpen * StatusClosed * StatusPendingDefect * The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page, contains macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based on its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues =============
Open Issues ----------- 1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A 2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B
Pending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue
Closed Issues ------------- 1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
* This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page prefaced by "IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically appear under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off from the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for MediaWiki with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of this (which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros, which are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there similar functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl
Hi Tom,
I guess the Semantic MediaWiki extensions might be able to realise what you have in mind. You would add a [[Category:Issue]] to each page and a [[status:=open]] or [[status:=pending]] or [[status:=closed]]. On the main page you can <ask>[[Category:Issue]][[status:=open]]</ask> to get a list of open issues.
Come to http://www.ontoworld.org and take a look a a running MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki installed.
Kind regards,
Max Völkel -- Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org voelkel@fzi.de +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de
Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:
Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any help you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use the MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue tracker within it. Here's basically how it works:
- Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a
particular prefix in its name
- Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something like
this: * StatusOpen * StatusClosed * StatusPendingDefect
- The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page, contains
macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based on its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues =============
Open Issues ----------- 1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A 2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B
Pending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue
Closed Issues ------------- 1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
- This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page prefaced by
"IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically appear under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off from the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for MediaWiki with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of this (which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros, which are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there similar functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl
This looks perfect Max. Thanks!
Hi Tom,
I guess the Semantic MediaWiki extensions might be able to realise what you have in mind. You would add a [[Category:Issue]] to each page and a [[status:=open]] or [[status:=pending]] or [[status:=closed]]. On the main page you can <ask>[[Category:Issue]][[status:=open]]</ask> to get a list of open issues.
Come to http://www.ontoworld.org and take a look a a running MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki installed.
Kind regards,
Max Völkel
Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org voelkel@fzi.de +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de
Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:
Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any help you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use the MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue tracker within it. Here's basically how it works:
- Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a
particular prefix in its name
- Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something
like this: * StatusOpen * StatusClosed * StatusPendingDefect
- The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page,
contains macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based on its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues =============Open Issues ----------- 1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A 2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue BPending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issueClosed Issues ------------- 1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
- This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page prefaced
by "IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically appear under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off from the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for MediaWiki with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of this (which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros, which are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there similar functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl
This sounds like exactly what I've been looking for as well --- a way to make mediawiki into a bug tracker .. so I can avoid having a whole other system running for that.....
Mediawiki project itself is of course using Bugzilla .... and it 'looks' like mediawiki, but it's still a separate system, separate logins, and gah .. perl! ... so..
If you go ahead with the install of this, post back how it goes for you! Curious as to ease-of-installation... what version etc...
-- Chris
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Purl" tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki Cc: mediawiki-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: Re: MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker
This looks perfect Max. Thanks!
Hi Tom,
I guess the Semantic MediaWiki extensions might be able to realise what you have in mind. You would add a [[Category:Issue]] to each page and a [[status:=open]] or [[status:=pending]] or [[status:=closed]]. On the main page you can <ask>[[Category:Issue]][[status:=open]]</ask> to get a list of open issues.
Come to http://www.ontoworld.org and take a look a a running MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki installed.
Kind regards,
Max Völkel
Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org voelkel-OQR7qqye5Tk@public.gmane.org +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de
Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:
Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any help you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use the MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue tracker within it. Here's basically how it works:
- Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a
particular prefix in its name
- Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something
like this: * StatusOpen * StatusClosed * StatusPendingDefect
- The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page,
contains macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based on its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues =============Open Issues ----------- 1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A 2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue BPending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issueClosed Issues ------------- 1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
- This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page prefaced
by "IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically appear under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off from the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for MediaWiki with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of this (which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros, which are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there similar functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 16:07, Chris Earle (CBL) wrote:
This sounds like exactly what I've been looking for as well --- a way to make mediawiki into a bug tracker .. so I can avoid having a whole other system running for that.....
Mediawiki project itself is of course using Bugzilla .... and it 'looks' like mediawiki, but it's still a separate system, separate logins, and gah .. perl! ... so..
If you go ahead with the install of this, post back how it goes for you! Curious as to ease-of-installation... what version etc...
Since I develop Semantic MediaWiki, I do not want to be a defeatist here, BUT: personally, I think MediaWiki is as good as a bugtracker as it is as a discussion forum (so maybe we need "LiquidBugs" ;-), mostly for very similar reasons. Maybe Eric's inputbox-extension still could be useful for you to give people a simple pre-filled edit form for creating bugs.
-- Markus
-- Chris
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Purl" tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki Cc: mediawiki-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: Re: MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker
This looks perfect Max. Thanks!
Hi Tom,
I guess the Semantic MediaWiki extensions might be able to realise what you have in mind. You would add a [[Category:Issue]] to each page and a [[status:=open]] or [[status:=pending]] or [[status:=closed]]. On the main page you can <ask>[[Category:Issue]][[status:=open]]</ask> to get a list of open issues.
Come to http://www.ontoworld.org and take a look a a running MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki installed.
Kind regards,
Max Völkel
Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org voelkel-OQR7qqye5Tk@public.gmane.org +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de
Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:
Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any help you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use the MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue tracker within it. Here's basically how it works:
- Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a
particular prefix in its name
- Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something
like this: * StatusOpen * StatusClosed * StatusPendingDefect
- The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page,
contains macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based on its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues ============= Open Issues ----------- 1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A 2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B Pending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue Closed Issues ------------- 1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
- This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page prefaced
by "IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically appear under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off from the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for MediaWiki with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of this (which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros, which are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there similar functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl
I plan plan on posting something more detailed on this in the future, but I just wanted to say that I finished an implementation of this using SemanticMediaWiki and the inputbox extension today and am very pleased. Not only is it everything that I used to have with MoinMoin, but it is actually much more robust. I'm looking forward to kicking the tires a little more and extending the functionality, and once I do I'll be sure to post my results to the list.
Thanks again to everyone for the help!
Tom Purl
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:18:23PM +0200, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 16:07, Chris Earle (CBL) wrote:
This sounds like exactly what I've been looking for as well --- a way to make mediawiki into a bug tracker .. so I can avoid having a whole other system running for that.....
Mediawiki project itself is of course using Bugzilla .... and it 'looks' like mediawiki, but it's still a separate system, separate logins, and gah .. perl! ... so..
If you go ahead with the install of this, post back how it goes for you! Curious as to ease-of-installation... what version etc...
Since I develop Semantic MediaWiki, I do not want to be a defeatist here, BUT: personally, I think MediaWiki is as good as a bugtracker as it is as a discussion forum (so maybe we need "LiquidBugs" ;-), mostly for very similar reasons. Maybe Eric's inputbox-extension still could be useful for you to give people a simple pre-filled edit form for creating bugs.
-- Markus
-- Chris
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Purl" tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki Cc: mediawiki-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: Re: MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker
This looks perfect Max. Thanks!
Hi Tom,
I guess the Semantic MediaWiki extensions might be able to realise what you have in mind. You would add a [[Category:Issue]] to each page and a [[status:=open]] or [[status:=pending]] or [[status:=closed]]. On the main page you can <ask>[[Category:Issue]][[status:=open]]</ask> to get a list of open issues.
Come to http://www.ontoworld.org and take a look a a running MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki installed.
Kind regards,
Max Völkel
Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org voelkel-OQR7qqye5Tk@public.gmane.org +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de
Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:
Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any help you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use the MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue tracker within it. Here's basically how it works:
- Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a
particular prefix in its name
- Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something
like this: * StatusOpen * StatusClosed * StatusPendingDefect
- The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page,
contains macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based on its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues ============= Open Issues ----------- 1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A 2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B Pending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue Closed Issues ------------- 1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
- This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page prefaced
by "IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically appear under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off from the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for MediaWiki with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of this (which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros, which are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there similar functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl
-- Markus Krötzsch Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ fax +49 (0)721 693 717
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On Thursday 07 September 2006 03:30, Tom Purl wrote:
I plan plan on posting something more detailed on this in the future, but I just wanted to say that I finished an implementation of this using SemanticMediaWiki and the inputbox extension today and am very pleased. Not only is it everything that I used to have with MoinMoin, but it is actually much more robust. I'm looking forward to kicking the tires a little more and extending the functionality, and once I do I'll be sure to post my results to the list.
Great to hear that. If you have specific questions for Semantic MediaWiki, our list semediawiki-user at lists.sourceforge.net is most appropriate to get a quick response and real-time bugfixes ;-)
Cheers,
Markus
Thanks again to everyone for the help!
Tom Purl
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:18:23PM +0200, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 16:07, Chris Earle (CBL) wrote:
This sounds like exactly what I've been looking for as well --- a way to make mediawiki into a bug tracker .. so I can avoid having a whole other system running for that.....
Mediawiki project itself is of course using Bugzilla .... and it 'looks' like mediawiki, but it's still a separate system, separate logins, and gah .. perl! ... so..
If you go ahead with the install of this, post back how it goes for you! Curious as to ease-of-installation... what version etc...
Since I develop Semantic MediaWiki, I do not want to be a defeatist here, BUT: personally, I think MediaWiki is as good as a bugtracker as it is as a discussion forum (so maybe we need "LiquidBugs" ;-), mostly for very similar reasons. Maybe Eric's inputbox-extension still could be useful for you to give people a simple pre-filled edit form for creating bugs.
-- Markus
-- Chris
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Purl" tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki Cc: mediawiki-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: Re: MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker
This looks perfect Max. Thanks!
Hi Tom,
I guess the Semantic MediaWiki extensions might be able to realise what you have in mind. You would add a [[Category:Issue]] to each page and a [[status:=open]] or [[status:=pending]] or [[status:=closed]]. On the main page you can <ask>[[Category:Issue]][[status:=open]]</ask> to get a list of open issues.
Come to http://www.ontoworld.org and take a look a a running MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki installed.
Kind regards,
Max Völkel
Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org voelkel-OQR7qqye5Tk@public.gmane.org +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de
Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:
Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any help you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use the MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue tracker within it. Here's basically how it works:
- Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a
particular prefix in its name
- Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is
something like this: * StatusOpen * StatusClosed * StatusPendingDefect
- The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page,
contains macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based on its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues ============= Open Issues ----------- 1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A 2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B Pending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue Closed Issues ------------- 1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
- This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page
prefaced by "IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically appear under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off from the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for MediaWiki with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of this (which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros, which are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there similar functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl
-- Markus Krötzsch Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ fax +49 (0)721 693 717
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Thanks for the replies / comments about using Semediawiki everyone
Not sure I'm going to go the semediawiki route (only using MW 1.5.6... don't have time to install a bunch of extensions)
Was looking at Tom's original post again -- based on what he describes, couldn't this be done really easily with categories?
If each bug ticket is a wiki article, with an assigned status couldn't the bugs just be created like normal wiki articles and put into a specific status category? And have all the status catgeories as subcategories of a Bugs category? That way to see what bugs are in a particular status, one could just view the category page for that?
To get fancy, to create the new Bugs -- Inputbox extension could be used to create page with PRELOAD switch which I just discovered ..... using a template to include the bug in the Status:Open category Then changing a bug's status and moving them around would be as easy as changing the category....
Just thinking on the fly here -- if you read down this far - -what do you think? Tom?
-- Chris
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Purl" tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker
Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any
help
you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use
the
MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue
tracker
within it. Here's basically how it works:
- Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a
particular prefix in its name
- Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something
like
this: * StatusOpen * StatusClosed * StatusPendingDefect
- The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page,
contains
macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based
on
its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues ============= Open Issues ----------- 1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A 2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B Pending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue Closed Issues ------------- 1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
- This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page prefaced by
"IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically appear under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off from the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for
MediaWiki
with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of
this
(which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros, which are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there
similar
functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl
Thanks for the replies / comments about using Semediawiki everyone
Not sure I'm going to go the semediawiki route (only using MW 1.5.6... don't have time to install a bunch of extensions)
Was looking at Tom's original post again -- based on what he describes, couldn't this be done really easily with categories?
If each bug ticket is a wiki article, with an assigned status couldn't the bugs just be created like normal wiki articles and put into a specific status category? And have all the status catgeories as subcategories of a Bugs category? That way to see what bugs are in a particular status, one could just view the category page for that?
To get fancy, to create the new Bugs -- Inputbox extension could be used to create page with PRELOAD switch which I just discovered ..... using a template to include the bug in the Status:Open category Then changing a bug's status and moving them around would be as easy as changing the category....
Just thinking on the fly here -- if you read down this far - -what do you think? Tom?
Yes, you're right, I could do basically what I want with Categories and sub-categories. I'm not very familiar with MW yet, but I'm assuming I could even build a "dashboard" page that would dynamically show every "ticket" with a status of open and pending and whatever. Also, this is basically what I did with MoinMoin, although it treats categories more like tabs than actual categories (which has advantages and disadvantages in this situation).
Having said that, I've pretty much fallen in love with the Semantic MediaWiki extension from a theoretical perspective. I love the idea that I can add attributes and relations to a wiki. It really provides the "development environment" for a wiki app that I've been looking for for a couple of years now. Also, I've already found other applications for this plugin that I believe will be very useful.
So yes, I'm still pushing ahead with using SMW as the base for my issue tracker. If that doesn't work out, then I'll try the categories-only solution.
Thanks again!
Tom Purl
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 17:53, Tom Purl wrote:
<snip>
Yes, you're right, I could do basically what I want with Categories and sub-categories. I'm not very familiar with MW yet, but I'm assuming I could even build a "dashboard" page that would dynamically show every "ticket" with a status of open and pending and whatever. Also, this is basically what I did with MoinMoin, although it treats categories more like tabs than actual categories (which has advantages and disadvantages in this situation).
Having said that, I've pretty much fallen in love with the Semantic MediaWiki extension from a theoretical perspective. I love the idea that I can add attributes and relations to a wiki. It really provides the "development environment" for a wiki app that I've been looking for for a couple of years now. Also, I've already found other applications for this plugin that I believe will be very useful.
Good to hear this (though we never thought of SMW as a "development environment"). I also agree that one should use categories for things that are just working well this way. SMW can then produce summray pages which list all bugs from the various categories. But you could also add e.g. dates to each bug (maybe "due at" or "filed at"), and SMW could then order the bugs by those dates. This is something where categories won't be of much use :-)
Templates would be a nice combination with this. For an example on how this can be done efficiently, look at the annotated page [1]: there is just a normal template inclusion, no direct SMW syntax. (The actual template syntax as usual is hard to read and could be simplified -- we had to use ifeq for if in MW1.6) The template parameters are semantically annotated, so you can do dynamic listings like the one on page [2] (the listings of events are all done dynamically).
Cheers,
Markus
[1] http://ontoworld.org/wiki/BOEMIE2006 (page of some workshop) [2] http://ontoworld.org/index.php/Main_Page#Events (see Events section)
So yes, I'm still pushing ahead with using SMW as the base for my issue tracker. If that doesn't work out, then I'll try the categories-only solution.
Thanks again!
Tom Purl
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