[HacktionLab] late homework - anyone speak Mediawiki?

[Tom Lord]

>> http://humerus.tachanka.org/w/index.php/Main_Page
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> here are some notes from occupywiki dev
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> https://occupywiki.org.uk/wiki/Help:Maps
> https://occupywiki.org.uk/wiki/Map
> https://occupywiki.org.uk/wiki/Map/pointers

Thanks Alan - the last link there is the key. So Occupy have basically 
created a list of pointer coordinates on that page which feeds into the 
main map (link above) to create the pointers there. It basically 
hard-codes the data, without storing much else in that structure that 
would be of use e.g. links to organisation, long description, etc.

I could do something like that (and it's kind of where I've got to if I 
can't figure out how do do what I want to do) AND then I would have to 
maintain two separate blocks of data -

1) for the organisation details other than the coordinates, which 
generates the tables and linked subcategory tables that you can see on 
the home page of my site, and

2) for the coordinates and labels for the pointers on the map, maybe on 
a separate page like Occupy is doing, or maybe just hard-coded into the 
main page.


What I want to do is to incorporate the coordinates into the existing 
data structure for organisations, and run an ask:: query on those to 
generate the map, so that all the Organisation data is stored in one 
convenient place. This is what the example on the semantic maps page is 
doing: http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Examples/Query_by_category

...and I thought I had copied the relevant bits of markup to do the same 
on mine, with sadly dissimilar effects. Unfortunately I have about 2 
hours of experience with this technology and my champion developer seems 
to have gone on holiday after getting us most of the way this far :-)

cheers,
Tom.