Forum:SMW and references

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Seems the SMW doesn't care all that much to references and becomes a problem when references are needed in the infoboxes such as Orgrimmar, where the population is disputed numbers. What's going to be the best way to handle this? Sssssssssssssssssssssssss For Pony! (^Sssss/_Slithered) 07:02, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

Split refs off into a separate parameter. --Pcj (TDrop me a line!•C207,729 contributions and counting) 12:01, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

Alternatively, you can ensure the placement of the information and citation into the article proper. Somewhat different than normally how we work here, but that's what Wikipedia does (even without being SMWized, the infobox is a summary for them rather than a crucial element, as with our infoboxes). --Sky (t · c) 13:22, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

I like that way too. --Pcj (TDrop me a line!•C207,729 contributions and counting) 13:30, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

A third way that you might want to try: Use the {{#tag}} parser function. I'm not sure that will work, but it's worth a shot. --Sky (t · c) 00:03, August 21, 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, I decided to just make it simple. Source is already at the bottom of the infobox, so abbreviations are all that are needed. Sssssssssssssssssssssssss For Pony! (^Sssss/_Slithered) 04:45, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Arrgh. Took me a minute to distinguish between SMW (Semantic MediaWiki) and SWM (MediaWiki Editor). --Eirik Ratcatcher (talk) 23:59, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Which yours plans for using SMW in future? Strizh (talk) 21:20, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

If we can set things up such that running SMW won't take the server down for a few minutes hourly (did we ever figure that out?), I want to turn it back on. --k_d³ 22:37, 6 December 2010 (UTC)