Yeah, I saw you on the list of mentors for MW ;) Looks like we'll get a huge
support for mapping ;) BTW, advise him to make multiple releases during his
project so only last one is not completed ;)
Sergey
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That sounds very good. I just realized that you asked before about the
> Google Summer of Code - there's a student who's applying to the GSoC to work
> on adding full support for mapping services to SMW - most notably updating
> Semantic Layers, but also, if there's time, adding support for services like
> Google Earth and Yahoo Maps. I'm signed up to be his mentor. I was planning
> to write more about it once we knew whether his application was accepted or
> not.
>
> -Yaron
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Sergey Chernyshev <
> sergey.chernys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I didn't see any complaints about this functionality so I'll go ahead and
>> check it into the repository.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Sergey
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sergey Chernyshev
>> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Sergey Chernyshev <
>> sergey.chernys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As promised, I added "Show embed code" link to Special:Ask page:
>>>
>>> http://www.techpresentations.org/Special:Ask?title=Special%3AAsk&q=[[Category%3ARFC]]&po=%3FRFC+date%0D%0A%3FRFC+title%0D%0A%3FRFC+author%0D%0A%3FRFC+document+URL%0D%0A&eq=yes&p=format%3Dbroadtable&eq=yes<http://www.techpresentations.org/Special:Ask?title=Special%3AAsk&q=%5B%5BCategory%3ARFC%5D%5D&po=%3FRFC+date%0D%0A%3FRFC+title%0D%0A%3FRFC+author%0D%0A%3FRFC+document+URL%0D%0A&eq=yes&p=format%3Dbroadtable&eq=yes>
>>>
>>> When clicked, it shows the code for {{#ask:...}} parser function that you
>>> can use to embed current results (including format) into a page anywhere on
>>> your wiki.
>>>
>>> I think that together with format selector, it'll help people create more
>>> data-driven wikis. So if nobody objects, I'll check it in for all to enjoy.
>>> Patch can be seen here:
>>> http://www.techpresentations.org/SMW_Ask_embed.patch /
>>> http://www.techpresentations.org/SMW_Ask_embed.patch.html (colorized)
>>>
>>> Also, during development, I noticed a few bugs or missing features of
>>> Special:Ask page:
>>>
>>> - Not all formatters work on Special:Ask, for example googlemap,
>>> debug, count and calendar don't work or display something different from
>>> what I'd expect them to do
>>> - count and order parameters always get set in the code so even when
>>> they are not defined, in the embed code they appear with empty values. I
>>> decided not to filter out parameters with empty values as some parameters
>>> might actually be meaningful. It's possible that count and order are just
>>> not initialized properly when $wgRequest->getVal( 'order' ) and
>>> $wgRequest->getText( 'sort' ) are used unconditionally
>>> - there is no way to display any meaningful title for a formatter or
>>> know whenever to include one in the list or not (debug) - current
>>> formatter
>>> classes are limited in this sense
>>> - there is no way to configure formatter on Special:Ask page except
>>> for just asking user for a list of additional attributes similar how
>>> printouts are asked for. This is limiting the use of formatting feature
>>> and
>>> renders some formatters completely useless (template, for example). I
>>> think
>>> it's worth looking into expanding SMWResultPrinter to carry more metadata
>>> and maybe form definition for accepted parameters.
>>>
>>> I hope to have time in the future to address some of these, but don't
>>> know when I'll have more time for it.
>>>
>>> Markus, Denny, let me know if it's a good idea to add these into Bugzilla
>>> to keep track of them.
>>>
>>> BTW, is SMW participating in GSoC?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Sergey
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sergey Chernyshev
>>> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>>>
>>
>>
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