Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-27704998-20160509142553/@comment-9605025-20160511170718

reply to #9 Yes, a good point about transclusion. However, in this case, Sandrew26 is looking to place information from multiple pages onto a single page; not the other way around. - reply to #10 I see. Well, it sure would be nice if there were some replacement for it. Not having semantic mediawiki removes a whole lot of functionality that can be useful for certain wikis. - reply to #11 If I understand the comment correctly, Jonray is saying to just use some software such as MS Excel to keep a personal database. Preferably, choose one that is also capable of special formatting so that you can have it generate the markup for you in the same program. Then, you can edit the database, have the new markup generated automatically, and then copy and paste a hardcoded table onto the page. So technically, it is just an automated way to generate hardcoded tables. The wiki is not auto-updating on its own.

Given that semantic mediawiki is no longer requestable, this sounds like the best option. However, it obviously is not the ideal solution because it requires someone to manually keep track of pages and update the database. It isn't too bad if it is just you. Remember though, the whole idea behind a wiki community is that anyone should be able to add content (within reason). That being said, if a lot of people other than yourself add pages with data related to the table, you might have to spend a lot of time tracking each page down in order to keep the table updated.

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Also, if the data on the pages might change, you will need to follow all of them in order to know when the database needs to be updated. As I mentioned before, this sounds like something a more advanced user would use a bot for. Unfortunately, I am of no use there.