Temlakos wrote: > Jon: > > Your proposal sounds like one for a virtual page of some kind--say, a > "page" that is actually a section, not a true page.
Essentially, yes. Perhaps this could be done by having you append an anchor name to any property that applies to the subject of a section instead of applying to the main subject of the page. As long as there are any "section properties" on the page, that section's anchor counts as a "virtual page" for semantic purposes. E.g., you might have a section under Eris entitled "Dysnomia"; in that section (or elsewhere on the page, as appropriate), you might include the text '[[Celestial class#Dysnomia::Moon]]', to semantically indicate that Dysnomia is a moon. Elsewhere on the same page, you might say '[[Celestial class::Dwarf Planet]]' to semantically indicate that Eris is a dwarf planet. For semantic purposes, Eris and Eris#Dysnomia would be considered to be separate pages, with Eris having the property 'Celestial class' with the value 'Dwarf Planet', and Eris#Dysnomia having the property 'Celestial class' with the value 'Moon'. A query for all moons on the site would include a link to 'Eris#Dysnomia', but not to 'Eris' itself. > Or for a better example, check out: > > <http://creationwiki.org/index.php/Pluto> > > and Pluto's satellites: > > <http://creationwiki.org/index.php/Charon> > <http://creationwiki.org/index.php/Nix> > <http://creationwiki.org/index.php/Hydra_(moon)> > > Same sort of problem. Nix and Hydra don't truly rate a separate > page--but how else can I use an inline query to produce a table of > Pluto's satellites? And I'd say that Charon /does/ rate a separate page. > > I haven't even mentioned the planet Jupiter, which has /sixty-three/ > satellites at last count--because I have only begun to write articles > about Jovian moons, starting with Galileo's initial discoveries. Now > maybe a few of the innermost moons rate separate pages--but all > sixty-two? And how about Saturn? Sure, I can write articles about Titan > (already done), Rhea, Mimas, Iapetus, etc.--but must I write a page > about every little ring shepherd? And I don't even want to think about > annotating the asteroids. :shudder: That's a Herculean task no matter how you go about it. > If we /could/ establish a "virtual page," then a property of the Page > type could point either to a virtual page or to a real page. If we go with something like my "attach annotations to anchors" idea above, this becomes a non-issue: to point a Page-type property to a virtual page, point it to the virtual page's anchor. Things get a little messy when you start considering page redirects; for instance, what happens when someone discovers enough information about Dysnomia to justify a page of its own, but you've already got a dozen links pointing to the anchor-based "virtual page"? > This might require yet another database table, say "smw_virtual_pages." > This table would have at least two columns: one with the virtual page > name, and the other with a page-and-section resolution that would have > exactly the same syntax as a section-specific redirection. I'm not (yet) familiar with how the database is set up; is there anything that forbids hash-marks in page names? -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
