Hi,
I have many pages that invoke templates with a date argument. I'd like to see if I can use the SIMILE timeline widget to build a timeline with links to the pages.
The SIMILE timeline widget gets its data from script blocks, so I was wondering if I could use DPL to scrape out the dates and the pages and then use its formatting to output a script block that would supply the data to the timeline widget.
Alternative solutions to populate the timeline widget data would also be appreciated.
Thanks!
Try Semantic MediaWiki and its timeline result format [1]. All that SMW does is scrap the pieses of data distributed on the wikipages and allows to represent these data in various formats (here is a list of commonly used formats [2])
You'll need to install the SMW extension and update your templates a bit but the result is really worth it! [1] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Timeline_format [2] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Result_formats ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Richard legalize@xmission.com wrote:
Hi,
I have many pages that invoke templates with a date argument. I'd like to see if I can use the SIMILE timeline widget to build a timeline with links to the pages.
The SIMILE timeline widget gets its data from script blocks, so I was wondering if I could use DPL to scrape out the dates and the pages and then use its formatting to output a script block that would supply the data to the timeline widget.
Alternative solutions to populate the timeline widget data would also be appreciated.
Thanks!
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In article CAAT7DEHGgZtScKeY5z=-f9UK2Mn5p4qzE3xF-bcT09UDuOi4Qw@mail.gmail.com, Yury Katkov katkov.juriy@gmail.com writes:
You'll need to install the SMW extension and update your templates a bit but the result is really worth it!
My understanding is that SMW is more than just an extension, it's an entirely different distribution of mediawiki. I don't want to replace my entire installation.
That's not true. You can install SMW to your wiki as usual, by connecting it to LocalSettings.php . And if you have many templates on your wiki, it would be easy to gradually enrich them with SMW annotations while saving the original content.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Richard legalize@xmission.com wrote:
ore than just an extension, it's an entirely different distribution of mediawiki. I don't want to replace my entire installation.
----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote
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