From: Yaron K. <ya...@gm...> - 2008-08-18 13:43:18
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I personally never use it, for what it's worth. Though the idea of making the factbox minimized by default, then expandable through Javascript, is a very good one - if people are using the Browse page as a substitute for factboxes, then it sounds like a "minimized factbox" could be a much more significant improvement to SMW than any theoretical changes to the Browse page. -Yaron On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Temlakos <tem...@gm...> wrote: > Please do not--I repeat, please do not--remove the Special:Browse page. > > We at CreationWiki recently hid all factboxes, after some of them became > large enough to fill the screen and, as a result, an unwelcome and > unsightly distraction. The Browse page therefore remains the only way > that we can access and browse semantic information. > > Here is an example of a Browse entry on our site. With the sheer volume > of information that it contains, you can readily see how this would > appear in a factbox, and why we needed to hide factboxes. > > <http://creationwiki.org/Special:Browse/Earth> > > The browse page is also the only way that we can now take full advantage > of service links. For example: > > <http://creationwiki.org/Special:Browse/Jerusalem> > > That contains a link to finding the city of Jerusalem on a map. > > If the Browse page goes, then we would have to re-show the factboxes, > and that would create a problem. The problem is that SMW provides no way > at present to show a factbox on-the-fly. Right now, an editor has to > specify a magic word--and in the last version of SMW, the magic word got > broken and won't show the factbox at all. > > So the only compromise that I can accept is a convenient way to access > browseable information from an article page without showing all the > factboxes again. > > Temlakos > > Temlakos > > Denny Vrandečić wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Semantic MediaWiki has, for a while now, a Special:Browse feature that > > allows you to see all the outgoing and incoming properties of a page. > > The page is a three column layout, having incoming links in the first > > column, in the middle there is the name of the entity, and outgoing > > links on the right column. > > > > See here for an example: > > <http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Special:Browse/Germany> > > > > We are not sure if this is a usable feature, really. Therefore I'd like > > to know your opinion -- should it stay (in the core)? Do you see a lot > > of usage of it on your site? Do you have cool ideas to make it tons > better? > > > > Best, > > denny > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Semediawiki-user mailing list > > Sem...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > Sem...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > |