Hi all, I just finished work on a new website for my research group (and maybe others). The site might be of interest, since it showcases quite a few techniques in terms of skinning, customization, and SMW-usage:
https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/ The main things to watch out for: * Chameleon skin with extensive use of Bootstrap layouts. I have written several MW extensions to add more Bootstrap goodness to MW (esp. the carousel at the start page, and the tabs you see in many places, but also the affix second-from-top navigation bar that part-collapses on small screens). * Full-fledged dual-language MediaWiki. You can switch languages at the top. I wrote quite a few hooks to make sure that pages switch completely: navigation, main page, page contents, HTML headers. There is still a site language (it's German) but the pages should be fully localized (including an extra hreflang header link for Google). * Complete deviation from MediaWiki's static navigation. Instead, all side-column navigation (usually on the left of pages) is created by the pages in the wiki themselves (using templates). This requires some small extensions to allow me to move/hide/change the main title of the page (you don't want the page title to span all columns and be above the navigation menu). Using SMW, the navigation can be highly adaptive to wiki and page contents. Examples: ** https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Ver%C3%B6ffentlichungen/2009/en shows year numbers that come from an #ask query and puts the MediaWiki __TOC__ for the current page below the currently selected year (with some styling to make it fit visually). ** https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Article4007/en shows links to publication pages of those authors (the authors come from a template parameter added in a form) that have pages on the site (again, SMW is used to figure out the latter). * There is a brand new Bibtex export that handles Unicode characters (translating them to LaTeX commands) and uses the MediaWiki GeSHI support for highlighting. See, e.g., https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Article4002/en Please contact me if you are interested in this bibtex code; I have not published it anywhere yet. The site is based on the original AIFB Portal [1] but with completely reworked templates and skins (a lot of work I can tell you). The site is of course not free for editing, but all relevant namespaces (including Template and Form) are readable, and you can try action=formedit (do it on German pages! the English ones are just querying data from SMW) to see how the forms look. Cheers, Markus [1] http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Hauptseite ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
