Hello Everyone,
I am trying to make or find a MediaWiki template that will take a category and fill in a table on the main page of a site in one column. The table will have a second column that will contain external urls.
On Sun, 2017-12-31 at 11:08 -0500, John Lewis wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am trying to make or find a MediaWiki template that will take a category and fill in a table on the main page of a site in one column. The table will have a second column that will contain external urls.
I found a template that kind of does what I want to do.
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Template:Category_table_divided&ac tion=edit
Could someone tell me if I need Semantic Mediawiki to make it work?
Hi John,
Semantic MediaWiki and Cargo are the two extensions that are generally used for this kind of thing. If you want to use that exact template, you would need to install SMW, since it uses SMW tags.
-Yaron
On Dec 31, 2017 11:59 PM, "John Lewis" jl@hyperbolicinnovation.com wrote:
On Sun, 2017-12-31 at 11:08 -0500, John Lewis wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am trying to make or find a MediaWiki template that will take a category and fill in a table on the main page of a site in one column. The table will have a second column that will contain external urls.
I found a template that kind of does what I want to do.
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Template:Category_table_divided&ac tion=edit
Could someone tell me if I need Semantic Mediawiki to make it work?
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On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 16:09 -0500, Yaron Koren wrote:
Hi John,
Semantic MediaWiki and Cargo are the two extensions that are generally used for this kind of thing. If you want to use that exact template, you would need to install SMW, since it uses SMW tags.
-Yaron
On Dec 31, 2017 11:59 PM, "John Lewis" jl@hyperbolicinnovation.com wrote:
I read your book, "Working with MediaWiki: 2nd edition".
I don't need the exact template.
What I figured out that I could get what looks pretty much what I wanted with a simple table.
The question is, how many records should I have before it makes sense to switch from a simple table to a Cargo table? I have around 20 now, but I want to make the editing experience as streamline as possible and it is easy to imagine how tables could get in the way of that.
The table in question is on the main page of this site https://www.bmab lacklist.com.
Hi John,
I'm glad you read the book!
This question - how much data there should be before it's worth turning the wiki into a structured wiki - doesn't have an obvious answer, I don't think. If your table is going to stay roughly that size, there probably isn't much point to do it. If it's going to grow by a lot, and especially if there will eventually be more columns, then it seems worthwhile. But I don't know what the cutoff point is.
-Yaron
On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:04 PM, John Lewis jl@hyperbolicinnovation.com wrote:
On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 16:09 -0500, Yaron Koren wrote:
Hi John,
Semantic MediaWiki and Cargo are the two extensions that are generally used for this kind of thing. If you want to use that exact template, you would need to install SMW, since it uses SMW tags.
-Yaron
On Dec 31, 2017 11:59 PM, "John Lewis" jl@hyperbolicinnovation.com wrote:
I read your book, "Working with MediaWiki: 2nd edition".
I don't need the exact template.
What I figured out that I could get what looks pretty much what I wanted with a simple table.
The question is, how many records should I have before it makes sense to switch from a simple table to a Cargo table? I have around 20 now, but I want to make the editing experience as streamline as possible and it is easy to imagine how tables could get in the way of that.
The table in question is on the main page of this site https://www.bmab lacklist.com.
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What I am going to do is continue with the standard table until I meet my initial content goals.
Then I will make a development version of the main page in the project namespace so I can know how to make a cargo table without confusing anyone visiting the site. I can make a more informed decision afterwards.
Thank you for the information.
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