Hi Al, I would recommend using SMW properties, and not categories, for tagging content. There are various advantages to using a property:
- if the property is of type "String", which I would recommend, you don't have to create a page for each value - the values won't get confused with the names of other categories, as you seem to be experiencing now - you can have different tag sets for different page types, again without them getting jumbled up - you can query on the tags alongside other page fields. As to how to browse to see a list of, say, all the pages that use a certain tag, I would recommend the Semantic Drilldown extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Drilldown -Yaron On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Al <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I would ping you all for suggestions since some of you may have > already gone through something similar. > > > Wiki categories seem like a natural and synonymous fit for the typical > "tag" functionality for content, like stackoverflow uses. However, we have > an external application that will use the wiki API to pull content out for > use and will need to work with tags/categories. I'm just wondering before > I go down this road if there are any advantages to implementing my own > custom tags using semantic properties (the wiki already uses SMW/Forms > extensively) or if using wiki categories would be better. Of course, if I > forgo categories for semantic properties, then the users will not be able > to use the wiki categories pages for browsing articles, but maybe I could > create new pages based on semantic queries/concepts to replace them. At > this point I have no idea which way to go. > > > Thanks for your comments/suggestions, > Al > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
