Extension:Question API
From MediaWiki.org
 Release status: unknown |
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| Implementation | User interface, Special page, Database |
| Description | This extension aims add allowing to automatically triggering edits in the wiki while having wiki users verify the edits. A set of questions is displayed on the bottom of the page and if users answer them affirmatively, a pre-defined page edit is triggered. This can be used to integrate information from sources the provide a lot of facts at a time but which cannot be trusted in all cases. |
| Author(s) | Sebastian Blohm, Markus Krötzsch. Maintained by AIFB Karlsruhe. |
| Version | 0.1 (November 2007) |
| MediaWiki | 1.9.* or greater (tested with 1.12alpha) |
| Download | [1] |
| Example | http://test.ontoworld.org |
Ever wanted to pump data into your wiki but unsure if all this data is correct? This extensions provides a social approach to verification of the data. Instead of putting the facts directly on wiki pages, you can ask the users questions and along with these question specify a regular expression string replacement that is triggered on a page of your choice depending on the answer.
As an example, you may have stumbled upon a list of cities and how many bicycles are in use in each of them and now you want to add this information to pages about the respective cities in your wiki. In addition you don't trust this list but you trust your wiki visitors to be knowledgeable about local bicycle use (... just an example, you know). You translate the list to questions that are pushed into the wiki through HTTP requests. Wiki users will then be asked the question "Is it true that there are nine million bicycles in Beijing?" an affirmative answer to which will trigger a change in the wiki as specified in the respective HTTP request.
Special pages are provied to monitor questions and answers. A sample HTTP request looks like this:
http://localhost/devwiki/index.php/Special:QAquestions?question_text=Is it true that there a 9 Million bicycles in [[Beijing]]&answer_type=1&feedback_text=Thanks!&action_pagename_yes=Beijing&action_pattern_yes=It will also host the 2008 Summer Olympics.&action_replacement_yes=It will also host the 2008 Summer Olympics and hosts 9 Million bicycles.
[edit] External links
- Extension in use on http://test.ontoworld.org
[edit] See also
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[edit] Similar extensions
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