semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)

[Seth Woodworth]

Gary, the wiki is generally discussed on the library list, and on the new
wiki-gang(@lists.l.o) list.  That may be why you missed information about
the implementation of SMW.


On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:10 PM, S Page <info at skierpage.com> wrote:

> Summary: What do you want from activity wiki pages? (reply here or add
> to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Semantic_MediaWiki#Activities )
>
> A while ago Gary C Martin wrote:
> > Any information on what the semantic wiki plan is/was all about?
>
> I never heard of any master plan, however people should note wiki pages
> that could or do use semantic annotations at
> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Semantic_MediaWiki>. The SMW extension is
> basically annotating information in wiki pages so you can browse, query,
> and reuse it; a bit like categorizing pages on steroids.  Also someone
> installed the Semantic Forms extension which builds on SMW so you can
> edit certain page data in a form.
>
> > Seems to have been some black ops project
> > inside OLPC with no public documentation
>
> Dick Cheney denied this secret "black ops" project run outside of normal
> channels, so it must exist!
>
> > I noticed a few weeks back that my activity page had turned into some
> > monster Q&A template page if I now try and edit it...
>
> I haven't worked on the activity templates and forms.  I
> think user:Xavi added the OBX templates to activity pages
> a while back; recently user:Femslade added Activity_page and
> Activity_bundle templates that annotate similar info, and you can edit
> them in a form.  I don't know if anything reuses info like
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Activity_version
>
> Greg Smith asked me:
> > If we can edit activities page safely do you feel up to making some
> > edits there... Maybe propose something on devel then we can approve and
> > execute. Let me know if what we are looking for there is not clear.
>
> Sorry, I have no idea what people are looking for (Cheney keeps us all
> on a need-to-know basis, damn these freedom-destroying wikis with no
> congressional oversight!). My proposal would just be guesses, e.g.:
> * Unify the OBX templates and the semantic properties?
> * Unify the Creating_an_activity page and the new Form:Activity?
> * Automatically generate tables of activities?
> ** Replace (outdated?) Bundled/Core/Extra distinctions with a property?
> ** Display activity and versions compatible with a particular build?
> * Generate the Activity_microformat data for the pages that Software
> update parses (scary...)?
>
> Y'all can reply here, or edit
> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Semantic_MediaWiki#Activities>, or some
> other talk page in the wiki.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> =S Page   user:skierpage
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