On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Larry Martell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Markus Krötzsch > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Larry, >> >> in general, the best place to ask SMW questions is the semediawiki-user >> mailing list. Quick answers below: > > Thank you very much Markus for the reply. There is a lot of very > helpful info here. I have moved this discussion over to that list. I > hope you are on that list too and can continue to help me. > > >> On 11.02.2016 04:16, Larry Martell wrote: >>> >>> I am a total newbie with SMW, and I've inherited a system that no one >>> knows any details about. >>> >>> I have a few questions: >>> >>> How can I find out what and where the database behind the SMW is? I >>> would think there is a config file somewhere, but I can't find it. >> >> >> The data is stored in the database you have configured for your wiki. The >> config file where this is defined is LocalSettings.php. You can >> (additionally) store it in an RDF database if you wish (for this, you need >> to install such a database management system and add some config options; >> see SMW documentation). >> >>> >>> When I look at a page with browsebysubject I see a type associated >>> with the data, e.g.: >>> >>> {u'property': u'HasSide', u'dataitem': [{u'item': u'Left', u'type': 2}]} >>> {u'property': u'HasReferenceDataset', u'dataitem': [{u'item': >>> u'RefData, u'type': 9}]} >>> >>> What do these types mean? >> >> >> This is probably not relevant to what you want to do. >> >>> >>> I have been asked to edit 1000's of pages to remove 2 fields and add a >>> new field. >> >> >> Take a look at the extension ReplaceText. It can probably do this for you. >> >>> To do this with the API would I get the data with >>> browsebysubject and modify that dict? But then how would I write that >>> back? >>> >>> Or would I get the raw data with index.php?action=raw, modify that, >>> and then write it back with edit >>> (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit) >> >> >> An easier way to modify page texts in a one-time operation might be to >> export the text using Special:Export, modify the resulting XML file with any >> tool you like, and then re-import the file. Won't work well if your wiki is >> edited by many people, but if you have the modification script ready you >> could do this in a few minutes, which is good enough on a relatively static >> site. >> >> Whatever method you pick, changing the page text in one or the other way it >> the right way of changing SMW data. SMW's primary data storage is the page >> text, so you do not need to worry about any specific database related to >> SMW: the extension will make sure that its contents is updated to agree with >> the page text. *Never* edit SMW's database tables directly. Your changes >> will be lost as soon as the wiki pages are edited next time. > > I am wondering why the changes I made are not being seen on the pages. > I do see my changes when I export the pages but not when viewing them. > > For example, before, a page had this: > > |Type=Foo > |Side=Right > > and I changed it to this: > > |Side Type=Right Foo > > But on the page I see this: > > Type > Side > > With no data after the field names (whereas before the data was shown > after each field name). > > I made those changes by pulling the raw data and writing it back with edit. > > Then I tried the export/import method, but when I tried to import the > modified page, I got "No revisions imported (all were either already > present, or skipped due to errors)." > > I did make changes, so there must have been errors. How could I see > what those errors are? > > Also I changed the form from this: > > ! Type: > | {{{field|Type}}} > |- > ! Side: > | {{{field|Side}}} > |- > > To this: > > ! Side Type: > | {{{field|Side Type}}} > |- > > But that is not reflected in the pages either. > > What am I missing here?
I figured this out - I had to also change the template, not just the form. Also, exporting, modifying the XML and importing did not work. I did it with raw and edit. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
