MediaWiki/Editing/Advanced

Some advanced features are supported on this wiki.

Creating Infoboxes
Infoboxes on the Bibliotheca Anonoma Wiki are created using Capiunto, a Lua module is relatively easier to install and create infoboxes with than the opaque and puzzling template language. It will take a bit of reading to understand how to make one, but it's worth it.

Basic Usage Guide for Capiunto

Here's an example infobox:

You can then use this infobox with the following method call, and the example appears on the right:

Finally, when documenting the Lua module, you must use the provided subpage under /doc, unlike our documentation standard for templates. This is because the lua code does not provide any wikitext processing.

Cargo (Semantic Infoboxes)
The infoboxes on the Bibliotheca Anonoma are augmented with Cargo, a Semantic Web extension (designed to replace Semantic MediaWiki). This gives the infobox elements the power to be indexed in a semantic metadata database. That way, queries and reports can be made to sort out the data for easier searching.

A full Cargo Cheatsheet can be found here.

Basic Components of a Cargo Subject
A single Cargo subject is made up of a three basic elements:


 * 1) Template - Defines the table schema.
 * 2) Table - Indexes the data for queries.
 * 3) Form - Helps users create a new page with fields for metadata.
 * 4) Page - Use the form to create a new page.

1. Create a Cargo Template
The Cargo Template defines the table's schema: what kind of columns it has, and how it looks to the user.

2. Create a Cargo Table

 * 1) Open the Cargo Template you need to create a template for.
 * 2) Click More at the top right next to the search bar.
 * 3) Click Create Cargo Table.

The cargo table must be recreated each time the schema is modified in the template.

3. Create a Cargo Form

 * 1) Go to Special:Forms.
 * 2) Choose the template to create the form for.
 * 3) Name the Form with the same base name as the Template. (e.g. for , type in  .)

4. Create a Cargo Page

 * 1) Go to the page Form:Cargo Title, replacing "Table Title" with the actual title of the cargo subject.
 * 2) Enter the title of the page you want to create.
 * 3) Fill out the form. In the "Free Text" box, you can create a normal wikipage.

Creating Templates
When creating a template meant for users to utilize, you should place a  header into it.

This template should be added at the very beginning of all template pages between 'noinclude' tags:

Documentation of the template, usage instructions, and output example should also be added between the 'noinclude' tags (as in this template).

The actual template code must be written between 'includeonly' tags:

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