Cheers Greg,
We here at Vistaprint have very little experience with SMW/SMW forms. I personally
experimented with it at my last job[1] but haven't used it in years. Our staff
directory consists of a home-rolled extension that uses locally cached information from
ActiveDirectory (via LDAP.) I also didn't find much via Google on implementing a
personnel-directory with SMW...I don't think there is much out there. It sounds very
plausible and I encourage you to try SMW, I've heard great things about it.
You might want to have a look at the WikiData project, too.[2] It provides a centralized
place for structured data - it solves a different problem than SMW, though. [3]
Best wishes,
--Daniel
[1.]
http://ecoliwiki.net
[2.]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
[3.]
https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_and_Wikidata
From: greg.rundlett(a)gmail.com [mailto:greg.rundlett@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Rundlett
(freephile)
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:43 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Cc: Daniel Barrett; Daniel Renfro
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] New extensions from Vistaprint
Hi guys,
I'd like to build a staff directory using Semantic MediaWiki and smw forms. Just
wondering if you tackled such a thing and might be able to share. Or, do you know where
to find an example since my Google-fu is failing me.
~ Greg
Greg Rundlett
http://eQuality-Tech.com
http://freephile.org
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Daniel Renfro
<drenfro@vistaprint.com<mailto:drenfro@vistaprint.com>> wrote:
At Vistaprint (
www.vistaprint.com<http://www.vistaprint.com>)m>), we have an extensive
internal wiki, and over the last six years, my team has built 50+ custom MediaWiki
extensions. I'm happy to announce that we are starting to release these extensions as
open source. They range from very small (see below) to quite powerful & unique.
To help us get familiar with Wikimedia's Git/Gerrit process, we're beginning with
a very small but useful extension: CategoryTagSorter. It simply alphabetizes the category
links displayed in articles. (Normally they appear in the same order written as in the
wikitext.) It has been called "the simplest useful MediaWiki extension" and was
written originally by Dan Barrett (User:Maiden_taiwan, also author of the O'Reilly
MediaWiki book).
Have a look at the documentation at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTagSorter
View the code at:
https://git.wikimedia.org/log/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCategoryTagSorter
We are looking forward to releasing more extensions in the coming months, and hope to
become more involved in the MediaWiki community in general. Questions and/or comments can
be sent to me directly, or to
MediawikiExtensions@vistaprint.com<mailto:MediawikiExtensions@vistaprint.com>.
Cheers,
--Daniel Renfro (User:AlephNull) and the rest of the MediaWiki development team at
Vistaprint
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