I have a Semantic MediaWiki installation <http://ropewiki.com/> that has a
large number of Canyon pages<http://ropewiki.com/index.php/Category:Canyons>,
where each of those pages describes a different hiking trip. These
pages<http://ropewiki.com/index.php/Havasu_Canyon>have a number of
properties on them, one of them being Quality (how "good"
of a trip it is). Currently, editors can edit the wikitext to change this
property. I would like make a feature that allows people to vote on what
Quality they think a particular Canyon is, and then the overall Quality
(based on the votes received) would be displayed on the page. I can think
of a few different ways this might be done, but I was hoping to get some
advice from people who are really familiar with Semantic MediaWiki for
which method is likely to produce the best results with the least effort.
== Single "Voting data" wiki page ==
I could make an extension that automatically edits a particular wiki page
(perhaps "Voting data") in response to a click. It would read the existing
content, add the new vote, recalculate ratings, generate semantic
properties with those ratings, and save the new page version. I'm not sure
if this is possible, but it seems like the best solution if it is.
Although, there might be a problem eventually if, say, 300 people each
vote on 10 canyons, then my page size is going to be like 60k (which may
cause performance issues?)
== Stand-alone widget ==
I could make an extension that injects custom PHP that talks to an entirely
separate (non-MediaWiki) database to store and report the voting data.
This same approach would work on any website, even if it wasn't a
MediaWiki install. The down side of this approach is that I have no idea
how I would (could?) integrate the voting results into a semantic search.
Can semantic data be stored stably in the SMW database without being
defined in any wikitext?
== Per-page voting data ==
I could maybe make an extension that automatically edits the current page
and injects an additional vote line so all the quality votes for a given
page are stored on that page. But, this seems like the most difficult
option, and there would be a bunch of voting data junk in the wikitext
content.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
--Ben
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