Forum:Semantic MediaWiki?

On Jan, 30, I asked and got no answer: "Is there any chance that Wikia could support Semantic MediaWiki?". I wonder if there is a better place to ask this question? TIA --Lirielle 10:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, I've asked the technical team to have a look at this extension and see whether it's one we would support. I'm not sure how long it will take for someone to have time to have a look, but I'll let you know when I hear more. -- Sannse 00:39, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

sure!
I believe the Semantic MediaWiki extension's features would be very useful for some Wikis. Being able to assign properties to articles and then query these would really help to automate summary information, e.g. all Lord of the Rings characters by race displaying their birthdays and with links to their parents. That kind of summary is a hassle to maintain by manual editing!

SMW is an easy enough extension to enable. It adds new database tables and permits arbitrary queries of its tables of properties, which can affect performance.

I work on SMW, so if any Wikia admins are interested in pursuing this, e-mail me. -- Skierpage 00:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Is there any progress on this?


 * I'd also like to see Semantic Mediawiki in use. It would provide a great way of displaying pages in a category, without resorting to the default category view, and would allow certain filtration of results. Fw190a8 03:06, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Done!
This has now been added. I don't understand how it works myself, so it would be great if someone could test it and make sure all is working correctly. Thanks -- Sannse 18:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)