Extension:SemanticComments

Description

SemanticComments is an extension that displays & manages any number of comments and replies that are attached to any page in a wiki. This extension stores comments in semantic properties while also providing an alternative to TALK namespaces for each SUBJECT namespace in a wiki.

The SemanticComments extension was derived from the Project Halo Collaboration extension by Hypergrove.

Setup

Download instructions

The latest release may be found .

Installation

Semantic MediaWiki 1.8+

To install SemanticComments, please follow the steps indicated below.

Copy Files

Extract the downloaded archive into your extension folder so that you get the following path $IP/extensions/SemanticComments/

Template:$IP

LocalSettings.php

Add the following to LocalSettings.php:

include_once("$IP/extensions/SemanticComments/SemanticComments.php");

enableSemanticComments();

Process the extension setup

SemanticComments comes with a small ontology to provide functionality for displaying and querying existing comments and some icons.

For that go to Special:Import, select and upload '/extensions/SemanticComments/import/SemanticComments.xml'

To use the delivered icons you need to upload the following files in your wiki:

'/extensions/SemanticComments/skins/icons/bad_active.png'
'/extensions/SemanticComments/skins/icons/neutral_active.png'
'/extensions/SemanticComments/skins/icons/good_active.png'
'/extensions/SemanticComments/skins/icons/defaultuser.gif'
'/extensions/SemanticComments/skins/icons/Comment_icon_crystal.png'

Please be sure that you keep the original file names.

Options:

==

All configuration options are defined and described in /SemanticComments/SemanticComments.php.

To reformat the style of existing comments or of the comment form, use the provided Cascading Style Sheet in '/skins' directory.

Testing your installation

Now you can enter

{{#set: |Article has average rating={{#averagerating:}} }} {{#showcommentform:}}

{{#ask: Belongs to article::Extension:SemanticComments

 | ?Has comment person
 | ?Has comment date
 | ?Has comment text
 | ?Has comment rating
 | ?Belongs to comment
 | ?Comment was deleted#true,false
 | ?Has comment editor
 | ?Modification date
 | ?Has attached article
 | format=template
 | template=CommentResult
 | sort=Has comment date
 | order=asc
 | link=none
 | limit=100

}}

to any article where you want to get a

list of all 'related comments' and a form that allows you to enter new comments.

From the list of Special pages, go to page “Special:SemanticComments”.

Languages supported

SemanticComments has support for three languages so far:

English
German
French

Extension Wishlist

Store all comments and their replies in subobjects on a single page in the Comment namespace.