Maker Hub Wiki

This wiki is created on MediaWiki Version 1.35.7 (2912741).

The goal of this wiki is to provide information on the facilities, equipment, tools, supplies, and software available in the George Fox University Maker Hub. If you have never edited a Wiki before, you should reference the documentation on the MediaWiki site - specifically the page on Editing.

This site makes use of the standard extension, Semantic MediaWiki. This extension allows us to set one or more properties on unique wiki pages. These properties can then be queried within other pages and the results can be dynamically displayed in a variety of result formats. The main benefit is that a lot of entries can be auto-generated to allow easy navigation of the site as the site develops and evolves. The editors can add new pages, attach properties to those pages, and then have those pages automatically show up on other pages. This saves the editors from having to maintain a variety of lists on multiple pages.

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For example, on the Main Page, there is a section for Facilities. This section looks like this:

==[[Facilities]]==
The Maker Hub is comprised of the following [[Facilities|facilities]]. These links describe each area and the resources within those areas.
{{#ask: [[Is facility::True]]
 |format=ul
}}

The ask directive is a Semantic MediaWiki inline query. This particular query searches the wiki pages for pages that have the property Is facility set to True. (There is an article on Property naming and in the best practices section, it is advised that you use a verb phrase to describe properties). The |format=ul line directs the results to be printed out as an unordered list.

The value in this particular setup is that, when a new facility is added to the space, it will automatically show up in this list. Now, one might argue that facilities are not going to show up at frequent intervals, and, this is true. However, we can extend this practice to create new lists, and Equipment is one of the major ones. The use of properties,