User talk:Kghbln/Archive 01

Hello
Thanks for signing up and registering a website. I'm still actively building out WikiApiary but you will shortly see your statistics start to show up. Have fun and hope you find the Apiary useful! Thingles (talk) 20:13, December 28, 2012 (CST)


 * Heiya Jamie, I just saw that you added this site to the Community Wiki and thought I give it a try. A great idea and I am looking forward to how it develops. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 20:15, December 28, 2012 (CST)

Website Summaries
I saw you added summary/description text to some of the wikis you added. I've been thinking I should add that as a property for the website form. Seeing you add it makes me think that I definitely should! :-) BTW, thank you for adding more wikis. That is awesome! Thingles (talk) 07:41, December 29, 2012 (CST)


 * I really like this wiki. The idea of providing a brief description is from the smw community wiki. Having an extra field for this, including a related property is a good idea. In return you could remove the free text field. I am not so sure about the tags I should use and this is why I have not done is so far. Probably autocompletion on property values is the way to go here. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 07:52, December 29, 2012 (CST)


 * I've added the field to the form, added autocompletion and removed the free text area as you suggested (diff). Something is amiss with my autocompletion though. I've noticed this on another wiki of mine, need to debug what is happening there. Thingles (talk) 08:01, December 29, 2012 (CST)


 * Great! Looks good to me - approved! :) Why don't you just use "values from property" instead of "remote autocompletion"? Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 08:07, December 29, 2012 (CST)

Indexes on Wikis
I'm planning on adding a number of calculated indexes to WikiApiary shortly. Calculations using the existing statistics that would be interesting. One example I've been considering is an activity index that would be (edits in last 28 days/active users). Another would be admin index (active users/admins). Any suggestions you have on indexes would be great. Thingles (talk) 08:07, December 29, 2012 (CST)


 * You will see I made a Template:Website indexes that is now showing four calculated indexes for all wikis. I also added a table of "Most Active Wikis" to the Statistics page. Pretty fun! Thingles (talk) 08:24, December 31, 2012 (CST)


 * Yay, we two beat Wikidata :) Its getting better here by the day! --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 08:28, December 31, 2012 (CST)

Editor
I created a new Editors group and have added you to it so that I don't need to patrol your edits. :-) And also so that at some point Forms and Templates can be restricted but you can still edit. Any suggestions on other rights or groups that should exist would be very welcome. Thingles (talk) 06:32, December 30, 2012 (CST)


 * Great, thank you. :) One thing that comes to my mind immediately is . I will provide other suggestions along my way here. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 06:36, December 30, 2012 (CST)


 * Added! Thingles (talk) 06:40, December 30, 2012 (CST)

Changing subobjects
Just a heads up on a big change I'm making right now. Right now the bot writes extension and general information to /Extensions and /General subpages of a given website. The subobjects are then attached to that subpage with a linking Has website property. I'm changing this after doing some tests. I'm going to still write the subpages, but the data will be in  blocks. Then I will transclude the subpages into the website page.

This will have two wins. First, queries will be easier to create since all data will be in the website object or subobjects directly connected to it. Also, since a transclusion is in place when the bot changes the subpage it will trigger MediaWiki to update the page with the transclusion and get new data. This does mean some queries will have to be modified. Thingles (talk) 14:55, December 30, 2012 (CST)


 * I am touching wood. Support from me. :) Modifying the queries should not be the problem then. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 15:10, December 30, 2012 (CST)


 * Change is made and should be propagated through. When you look at the properties for a website you'll see all the data now there. Thingles (talk) 15:19, December 30, 2012 (CST)

Header tabs
Funny! I was thinking that adding header tabs to the website template would be a good thing! See you just did that! Sweet. I'll pull the graphs out of the tabs though. I'm signing off for a bit. Youngest is done with nap and we're hanging out. Thingles (talk) 15:22, December 30, 2012 (CST)


 * I guess this was natural thing to do. :) Admittedly, I have to do something else, too. Enjoy your family time now! --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 15:26, December 30, 2012 (CST)

Sync with Semantic MediaWiki Community Wiki
I was looking briefly at the SMW Community Wiki on Referata and I think it would be pretty simple for me to write a bot that "synced" the websites registered there over to WikiApiary. Do you think this would be a good idea? Bad idea? Inappropriate? Cool? What do you think? In about 15 minutes I already have the query for pulling all the public, active sites from that wiki. Now I just need to make sure to not duplicate and attempt to discover the API endpoint my retrieving the base page and looking at the meta headers. Thoughts? Thingles (talk) 22:31, January 4, 2013 (CST)


 * A natural thing to think about this. Still I would not do it without asking Yaron about his thoughts, since he basically build up and fostered this directory. Otherwise it would appear like a bear taking a yummy honeypot. To some more or less large extent this wiki would supersede the community wiki after this was done. --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 05:13, January 5, 2013 (CST)