On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Jesse Wang <wjxh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you have a demo site somewhere? > No, but the new changes can be seen if you install SMW from svn, and enable the classes. You can look at the README file in my project code submission https://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2011-wikimedia/downloads/list > > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Devayon Das <shya...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> as one of the students working for MediaWiki under Google Summer of Code >> 2011, let me thank you for answering my odd questions, and bringing insight >> in areas I might have overlooked. >> >> Through the last three months, guided by my mentor Markus Krötzsch, and >> the people at Semantic MediaWiki (especially Jeroen De Dauw), I've been >> trying to build a newer way of constructing queries. >> >> As part of that initiative, we've built an interface called QueryCreator, >> which improves on it's predecessor, Special:Ask. QC's makes many tiny >> improvements over Special:Ask, but mainly requires you to know less about >> the query syntax. Some of the bigger improvements are: >> 1) A less cluttered interface >> 2) Auto-complete for properties and categories using the MW API. >> 3) An interesting javascript based Print-out builder, with associated >> modal windows. >> We have not completely eliminated the use the SMW query syntax in the >> interface(that could be a good goal for the future), but we believe a new >> user without any prior experience of SMW should be able to query your SMW >> wiki, without poring over the help-files. We hope to put QueryCreator in the >> upcoming release of SMW. >> >> The other (but related) work we've done is to try and look for those >> functionalities which need to be repeatedly implemented by a programmer >> while making other Query interfaces. We know that a single query interface >> may not always be suited to all kinds of users, nor to the many different >> domains where SMW is implemented. So we've done some work building two >> classes called QueryUI and QueryUIHelper, which encapsulate much of the core >> behaviour as well as some commonly used interface elements, so that it may >> be easier for you (developers) to build a query interface in the future. >> >> You can have a look at my commits on the work at >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/author/devayon >> >> If you have any comments about this work, please let me know. I have plans >> to improve upon my work from these last few months, and look forward to your >> insights. >> >> On a related note, a big thank you to Sumana at Wikimedia Foundation for >> making it so easy for all the GSoC 2011 participants (there were 8 of us in >> the beginning) to contribute. >> >> It's been a fun experience, and I hope to keep contributing code to SMW in >> the future. >> >> Cheers, >> Devayon >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! >> Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better >> price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you >> download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Semediawiki-devel mailing list >> Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel >> >> >
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