Charleswood Historical Society:Structure of this wiki

This wiki contains images and pages that are grouped in Collections. Collections form a hierarchy, so that anything that is e.g. in the "Churches" collection is also in the "Buildings" collection.

Useful Pages

Find all of the Special Pages at Special:SpecialPages

Upload files with Special:Upload

Find all pages at Special:AllPages

Create a wiki account at Special:CreateAccount

Find a list of all uploaded files at Special:ListFiles

Assigning a page to a collection

Option 1:

• enter the page name in the spot below and assign any relevant categories:

Option 2:

1. go to the page
2. click the edit link
3. click the "insert" dropdown
4. click "Template"
5. start typing "CollectedIn" and choose that option
6. type the collection you want to assign the page to
7. click "insert"
8. add additional collections the same way
9. save

Option 3:

• edit the page
• add {{CollectedIn}}
• save the page
• click "edit with form" and use the dropdown to pick the collection

Adding a new collection

1. Make a collection page by entering the name of the collection here:
   • assign the new collection to a parent collection if applicable using the form:

2. add the collection to the template hierarchy by editing Template:CollectedIn
3. Re-create the table to update the hierarchy:
   1. in template, click the "Recreate data" tab
   2. uncheck the "Recreate data into a replacement table, keeping the old one for querying"
   3. click OK
   4. wait 1 minute for process to complete (you can click on "View replacement table" link to check progress

Some queries will not show a collection unless it has at least one item in it.

Adding an image

I wonder if there is a way to automatically add the template...

1. Upload the image
2. Add Template:Image description to annotate the image: add {{Image description}} to the description field
3. Save
4. "Edit with form" to annotate the image and add it to relevant collections

Remaining tasks

• fix logo so it doesn't have white background

• fix problem with St. Mary's Anglican Church and presumably other pages with apostrophes in hierarchies, need to escape those or find other solution. Using SMW instead of Cargo might be an option. Turning these into non-hierarchies and solving that elsewhere might be an option.
  • Yaron replied that this is a parsing bug on Jun 7, hopefully that means he will fix
    • Asked if he is planning to fix... Ttenbergen bot (talk) 12:27, 2023 July 9 (CDT)

• check a replacetext for all "todo"s left anywhere

• If they really want events: event template (date, event_group (eg annual something parade), summary, description, location) - but that's dynamic content and I would recommend against it

• possibly: location template (buildings, parks, etc) (Geocode?, summary, description, Address, put this on map? can that be offline?) review that map extension I tested earlier

• possibly: family template (???) this might mostly be a lister of where the family is linked from, any person pages from the family, etc.

• oral history... how would one best structure that? just hyperlinks after the fact? Does it need a "person" structure? which would interact with the family structure? That should probably be multiple oral histories per person. How would that correlate with event? In theory it would be nice to have these as one page per topic, but likely the conversations are more stream of consciousness than that. Ask Myron

• possible consideration:

Artifact template/table with picture that can be linked to any of these, incl location in museum

• automatic addition of template code to e.g. image uploads: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NamespacePreload

• add buttons to insert menu in VE to add CollectedIn and Collection template; maybe.
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Gadgets/Add_a_tool#

• check if I can add the hierarchy definition to a template instead of editing it in the Template:CollectedIn - that would also allow turning new things into redlinks to start the new collection that way.

• should the search automatically include the CHS namespace? Most users shouldn't actually see it, so likely not. But it should search the file namespace and now does.

index.php?title=Category:Kiosk wiki infrastructure not sure what this is... are you trying to add this to a category? Or link to a cateory? Ttenbergen bot (talk) 20:15, 2023 July 14 (CDT)