Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24106305-20140228015112

Hi folks, I am new to Wikia and working on a gaming wiki, Garfield's Estate (http://garfieldsestate.wikia.com). The game is quest-driven, and the quests go in an ordered sequence. I would like to display these quests in a quest tree, and I would like for the quest tree to be automatically generated from the quests.

Is it possible to establish the parent-child relationship on a page set up for each quest, and have a quest tree on a separate page showing all the parent-child relationships displayed in a hierarchy here on Wikia?

I can show an example of this on a MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki that I have configured and been running for the past year. The quest tree can be found here: http://shipwreckedwiki.com/wiki/Quest_Tree

A quest with its parent-child relationship declared (at the bottom as "Depends on Quest") can be seen here: http://shipwreckedwiki.com/wiki/Surprise_Supplies

If you look at the source code of the quest tree, you'll see it's a SMW #ask query:

What are my options for getting the same automated result here on Wikia?

1. Does the SMW extension available to Wikia include the Semantic Results Format extention?

2. If not, is there another method with less server load of auto-generating a data tree like this?


 * 2a. I'm playing around a bit with using Special:CategoryTree, but it means adding each quest as a Category, doesn't it? Are there drawbacks to using this method?  Drawbacks for having hundreds of Categories?


 * 2b. Would DPL be useful, or is a tree format beyond its limits?

Thank you for your time! 