Re: [Semediawiki-user] Displaying boolean property assignments

[Asheesh L. <as...@cr...>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Yaron Koren wrote:

> I'm pretty sure this is actually a problem with Semantic Forms - I assume
> it's a form that's populating the template in question. I just looked it up,
> and I think I see the issue. Semantic MediaWiki has language-file values
> called "smw_true_words" and "smw_false_words" that specify all the possible
> values you can set a Boolean property to to mean true and false; these
> obviously differ from language to language. In SMW 0.7, the values usually
> looked like "t,yes,y" or "f,no,n" for any specific language, with "true",
> "1", "false" and "0" defined elsewhere as being valid regardless of the
> language being used.

I vote for "Yes" and "No", especially if this can be localized.  Semantic 
Forms is about taking raw technology like Semantic MW and making it easier 
to use; yes/no is much more normal than true/false.

-- Asheesh.

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