[Mediawiki-l] mediawiki as combined text/data store?

Daniel Friesen lists at nadir-seen-fire.com
Tue Feb 15 11:10:59 UTC 2011


On 11-02-15 02:45 AM, graham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a relative newbie with mediawiki and before I rush into something
> I'd appreciate some advice as to how practical this is.
>
> I want to use mediawiki to hold a catalogue of electronic resources
> (journals etc) that a library has access to. One page per resource. The
> end user would be able to search through categories of resource and each
> page would give the user a description of the resource, explanation of
> how to use it etc. So far, completely normal wiki.
>
> But I have additional data about each resource I would like to store in
> each page (for example, configuration settings for a proxy server for
> that particular resource). This data would not be visible to the
> standard user, but would be entered by the same person entering the
> visible text and would be visible to that person/group. The data would
> be extracted by a bot at intervals to generate configuration files
> directly or update an external database. Even better would be if the bot
> could also populate the pages with some of this data.
>
> Is this straightforward to do with mediawiki? I had a quick look at the
> API and it doesn't look like it's really geared to extracting
> user-defined chunks of data, but I could well be wrong. I don't mind
> doing some coding (and obviously will have to do some for the bot) but
> don't have a huge amount of time to spend on development. A pre-existing
> plugin that does what I want would be nice!
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
> Graham
If you don't mind parsing RDF you could use Semantic MediaWiki to 
annotate the information you want.
You could even use Semantic Forms to make entry easy.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]




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