Cheers Greg, We here at Vistaprint have very little experience with SMW/SMW forms. I personally experimented with it at my last job[1] but haven't used it in years. Our staff directory consists of a home-rolled extension that uses locally cached information from ActiveDirectory (via LDAP.) I also didn't find much via Google on implementing a personnel-directory with SMW...I don't think there is much out there. It sounds very plausible and I encourage you to try SMW, I've heard great things about it.
You might want to have a look at the WikiData project, too.[2] It provides a centralized place for structured data - it solves a different problem than SMW, though. [3] Best wishes, --Daniel [1.] http://ecoliwiki.net [2.] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page [3.] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_and_Wikidata From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Rundlett (freephile) Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:43 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Cc: Daniel Barrett; Daniel Renfro Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] New extensions from Vistaprint Hi guys, I'd like to build a staff directory using Semantic MediaWiki and smw forms. Just wondering if you tackled such a thing and might be able to share. Or, do you know where to find an example since my Google-fu is failing me. ~ Greg Greg Rundlett http://eQuality-Tech.com http://freephile.org On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Daniel Renfro <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: At Vistaprint (www.vistaprint.com<http://www.vistaprint.com>), we have an extensive internal wiki, and over the last six years, my team has built 50+ custom MediaWiki extensions. I'm happy to announce that we are starting to release these extensions as open source. They range from very small (see below) to quite powerful & unique. To help us get familiar with Wikimedia's Git/Gerrit process, we're beginning with a very small but useful extension: CategoryTagSorter. It simply alphabetizes the category links displayed in articles. (Normally they appear in the same order written as in the wikitext.) It has been called "the simplest useful MediaWiki extension" and was written originally by Dan Barrett (User:Maiden_taiwan, also author of the O'Reilly MediaWiki book). Have a look at the documentation at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTagSorter View the code at: https://git.wikimedia.org/log/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCategoryTagSorter We are looking forward to releasing more extensions in the coming months, and hope to become more involved in the MediaWiki community in general. Questions and/or comments can be sent to me directly, or to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Cheers, --Daniel Renfro (User:AlephNull) and the rest of the MediaWiki development team at Vistaprint _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
