Semantic MediaWiki

Jeroen De Dauw wrote:
> Hey,
>
> (You better write such mails to the MW list, which I cc'd now:
> wikitech-l@...)
>
> There indeed is a better way. MW provides a hook that gets fired on page
> creation. In this hook you can write the current timestamp to the page props
> table. Then just obtain that value when you need it. This will be cheaper
> then doing the query on the revision table.
>
> Very easy to write up, but it might already be provided by some extension.
> (Which is why I'm cc'ing the MW list.)
>
> Cheers

Beware of page_props clearing, as it assumes everything can be 
reconstructed from wikitext.

Hi,

Is it possible, in Semantic_Forms I guess, to get a field value to be automatically formed from other entered values or subset of values? For example I would like a 'code' property to be formed by the four first letters of the provided 'product name', a dash (-) and the 'year' of the product?

In the same manner I would love to get the 'page name' created the same way. I guess that if I can get one field to be created like this, then it is easy to use it for the page name...

Thanks,

Pierre

Another potentially odd HaloACL question...

We have two admin groups defined roughly as follows:

Admin A
{{#member:members=(users), User:WikiSysop }}
{{#manage group:assigned to=User:WikiSysop,(users)}}
[[Category:ACL/Group]]

Admin B
{{#member:members=(user list)}}
{{#manage group:assigned to=Group/Admin A,User:WikiSysop,(users)}}
[[Category:ACL/Group]]

We also have an ACL defined over the main namespace as follows:

{{#access: assigned to=Group/Admin A,Group/Admin B,User:WikiSysop
 |actions=read,edit,formedit,wysiwyg,create,move,delete,annotate
 |description=fullaccess for U:WikiSysop, G:Admin A, G:Admin B
 |name=Right}}

{{#manage rights: assigned to=Group/Admin A,Group/Admin B,User:WikiSysop}}

[[Category:ACL/ACL]]

With this configuration, WikiSysop can only view source on any page in the wiki and is completely unable to edit.  However, if I go into the "Global Permissions" tab and explicitly grant the "Edit" right to these two Admin groups, the WikiSysop user gains edit ability.

Now, I understand that anything not explicitly granted in HaloACL means the user doesn't have that right, but I'm a bit befuddled as to why an ACL over the Main namespace with full access granted to WikiSysop would result in WikiSysop only being able to view source (rather than the expected edit ability with just the Main namespace ACL in place).

Any hints?  I'm sure I'm missing something glaringly stupid, and I'm hoping group wisdom will enlighten me..
__________________________________________________ 
Peter Ellis 
Scientist 
Knowledge Discovery and Informatics
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Hello,
    I recently created a Semantic Form using the Create a Class wizard.  I
have some fields that allow multiple values and this can be an extensive
amount of information that the user can enter.  Unfortunately, all my forms
use a single text input element for entering information, instead of a
multi-line textarea field.  How do I specify that I want this field to use a
textarea instead of a text input box?  It does allow an additional textarea
field that is in addition to what I specified on the form.    
Thanks,
Bruce

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