Structure

This page provides an overview of the this wiki's structure. It should help editors to under the layout and find pages and categories of interest.

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Let's start with a basic idea of how this wiki is structured.

• On the left hand side you will find the sidebar which provides links to subpages. In case you want edit this sidebar, search for mediawiki:sidebar, using the search field in the sidebar. Remember: editing this page requires a sysop account.
• A couple of content management tools are used for this wiki, which are:
  • Pages represent the basic layout of every wiki. These documents can contain formatted text, links, embedded images and so on. They can be edited via the "edit" tab on top of each page. By doing this, one usually has access to the full content of the document, that means everything (text, links etc.) which is displayed on this page can be edited directly in wiki markup without the need to access other content. If you want to learn more about editing pages, follow the link to the MediaWiki Help in the help section. One exception are so called semantic queries, which can collect data from other pages and categories (see semantic properties below).
  • Categories offer a powerful possibility to group pages according to their similarities. You can put a page in a category simply by adding

    [[Category:categoryname]]

    at the end of the page. Again, follow the link to the MediaWiki Help in the help section to learn more about it.
  • Templates
  • Semantic properties can be seen as an extended category system and are integrated by using the semantic mediawiki plugin. Text can be turned into properties in two ways, either by wrapping the text of interest like this:

    [[propertyname::text]]

    or by setting the property at the end of the page:

    {{#set:propertyname=text}}

    The first way turns the text into a link to the property, whereas the second way is invisible on the page. The semantic mediawiki plugin provides a lot of functionalities and is very useful to structure this wiki in a semi-automated way. Please follow the link to the Semantic MediaWiki User Manual in the help section.
    The additional plugin semantic forms increases the usability even more, by adding a more user-friendly level of editing the wiki content. Full knowledge of the wiki markup language is not necessary anymore, thus pre-defined pages can be added and edited by non-experienced users. On the other hand, setting up useable forms requires knowledge about categories, templates and semantic properties. As usual, refer to the help section for further information.