Charleswood Historical Society:Structure of this wiki

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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.

Assigning a page to a collection

  • 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
  • check a replacetext for all "todo"s left anywhere
  • email them:

I have a draft of the kiosk wiki at chs.squirrelslair.ca. The data structures are in place, but I am still working on a bug where things don't work right if there is an apostrophe in the page name (e.g. St. Mary's Anglican Church). All images and their descriptions are uploaded, though, and I have set up forms to edit pages or new images. Instructions are at https://chs.squirrelslair.ca/index.php?title=Charleswood_Historical_Society:Structure_of_this_wiki . ...

- 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

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