Forum:Reorganizing the content databases

So i've been thinking a little... SporeWiki has a lot of good content. However, the Content databases are poorly designed and doesn't give any more info on the content found there other than their names. So a person can't come here and search for the content they want (number of legs/eyes on a creature, architectural details, etc.). However... By using Semantic MediaWiki, we could implement a system for this. If anyone is interested (hopefully some of the admins and some more wiki-familliar users will be), say so on this page and I will try to explain my plancin greater detail. Here's the simple version:

If we put on a page, a SMW-search for names would display the page under "Bob" on the search results.

If we put on a template (let's say the template is named foo), and then used the template on the page blah in this way: Then a SMW search for names would display the page under "Susy" on the search results.

Now, if we replace "name" with "eyes", "legs", "skin color" (and so on, the possibilities are endless) and put them in the Creation template (we might need to replace that template with different types for different content), we could then let people search for whatever they'd like. And on the database pages, we could put == Creatures with four legs == and simmilar queries. The  part would turn into a list of all pages which have been stated as having four legs.

Now, this won't be easy, but I hope I can get help and ideas from the community to do it. A requirement to get this to work would be to get started on Forum:Organizing the wiki (I have a draft for a new proposal for that page stored on another PC I can't currently access, so we'll have to get back to it). I also think it would be a wise plan to implement the new content databases together with the new main page.

Phew, that was quite a mouthfull... 21:14, 22 November 2008 (UTC)