Write support?

[olenz]

Do you see a chance to support writing the Semantic data in the wiki? The RDF export is handled via the Special page, but there is no corresponding thing for writing data, is there?

[baojie]

It would be very easy to do so by adding some scripts on a page

page = wiki.site.Pages['SnowWhite']
old_content = page.edit()
new_content = old_content + "[[Category:Princess]][[friend of::Grumpy]]"
page.save(new_content)

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[olenz]

That's not exactly what I meant. I thought that there would be a function to more directly modify the SMW data, e.g. by allowing to upload an RDF file (basically the inverse of "getRDF").
However, I see that this might be a problem, as all data should somehow be reflected in the contents of the article, I guess.

[baojie]

In SMW, the page content is primary, and database version is secondary. If we directly write to the database, the written data could be lost when the subject page is refreshed.

I agree that it would be very useful to import RDF data into wiki. The RDFIO extension [1] maybe used, although it requires a bit more setup at server side.

It may be useful to enable client-side Python support (without changing server code) by rewriting RDF triples to wiki scripts. Let's keep it in the roadmap

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RDFIO