Transclusionism

This page documents some of the contraptions at work in this wiki.

How to transclude labeled sections between texts:

To create links between different pages, based on some selection of text that somehow connects the pages on the bases of some common ground:

• Think of a category that is the common ground for the link. (eg. 'rawdata'), formulate it without spaces or using underscores (eg. 'raw_data', not 'raw data' );
• Edit the page and add {{RT|rawdata}}<section begin=rawdata /> before the text selection, and <section end=rawdata /> at the end (take care of the '/', without it doesn't work);
• All the other text selections in other pages which are selected along the same common ground will be transcluded on the side of the text.

How it works:

The section code is used by the 'Labeled Section Transclusion' extension, which looks for the tagged sections in a text, to transclude them into another text based on the assigned labels. The {{RT|rawdata}}<section begin=rawdata /> instead, transcludes the RT Template, substituting the word rawdata in its internal code. This is the content of Template:RT:

<div class="side">
{{#ask:[[Category:{{{1}}}]] |format=array |name=results}}
{{#loop: looper
  | 0
  | {{#arraysize: results}}
  | {{#ifeq: {{FULLPAGENAME: {{#arrayindex: results | {{#var:looper}}  }} }} | {{FULLPAGENAME}}  | |   {{#lst: {{#arrayindex: results | {{#var:looper}}  }}   | {{{1}}} }}  ([[{{#arrayindex: results | {{#var:looper}}  }}]])<br /><br />  }}
}}</div>[[category:{{{1}}}]]

Necessaire:

Currently on top of MediaWiki and SemanticMediaWiki, the following extensions needed to be installed for the contraption to work:

• Labeled Section Transclusion to be able to select specific sections of the texts and make connections between them;
• Parser Functions to be able to operate statements like if in the wiki pseudo-language;
• Arrays to create lists of objects, for example as a result of semantic queries;
• Loops to loop between the arrays above;
• Variables as it's needed by some of the above.