[Semediawiki-user] Access properties of the result of queries

[Caerolus <cae...@gm...>]

Hello everybody, let's see if someone can help me out here.

I've got a category Paper, Author, Volume and Journal. (authors write a
paper which is published in a volume of the journal).
So, in a page for a paper, I write for example:
[[author::Peter]], "{{PAGENAME}}", [[journal::Journal on Wikis]],
[[volume::Journal on Wikis, vol. 18|vol. 18]].
That way, I can easily list the papers by an author:
{{#ask: [[Category:Paper]] [[author::{{PAGENAME}}]] }}

Here is the problem. Note that the page for the journal is "Journal on
Wikis", and for the particular volume is "Journal on Wikis, vol. 18". The
thing is that I'd need to list the journal and volume as well in the above
query.
However, if I just add |?journal |?volume to the query, the result would be
something like (using a template):
Peter, "Title of the paper", Journal on Wikis, Journal on Wikis, vol. 18.
That is, it repeats the "Journal on Wikis" part when displaying the volume.

To solve this, I thought about adding a property to the volume's page:
[[volume number::18]] and then access that property from the first query.
Well, I don't know how to do that :-)
Is there any way to access the properties of a result item? Or if anybody
has a better approach, I'm all ears.

I also thought about letting the volume property on the paper page be just
the number (which makes more sense), that is: [[volume::18]]. But then I
don't know how to make it point to the page "Journal on Wikis, vol. 18". It
would point to the page "18", which obviously is not enough as there are
different journals with volume number 18.
Don't know what to do. Any help?

Thank you!


Julián Urbano
Virginia Tech, National Capital Region
Department of Computer Science
7054 Haycock Rd. Room 303
Falls Church, VA 22043
Tel: +1 703-538-8371
http://www.nvc.cs.vt.edu/~jurbano