Property talk:Birthday

approaches for Implied Date info

Patrick, this is interesting work. Indeed, birthday attribute is implied by date of birth.

• You could have a {{birthday|1511|07|30}} template that creates Attribute:Birthday, Attribute:Born in year, Attribute:Date of birth, etc. all in one go.

Yes, there is Template:b (talk, backlinks, edit). It is usually substituted.--Patrick 02:11, 14 November 2006 (CET)

• Maybe instead/as well it makes sense to be able to query dates intelligently for month or day, so you can query for "MM-DD" part of a Type:Date. That way you wouldn't need to have lots of implied attributes.

Yes, the need for several annotations containing the same data is not ideal.--Patrick 02:11, 14 November 2006 (CET)

• Furthermore, perhaps there should be a format control for datatypes, so an attribute or a page or an inline query can specify '%B %e' to format a Type:Date as 'July 30'.

I (skierpage) implemented this in SMW post 0.6. -- Skierpage 02:36, 24 January 2007 (CET)

Feel free to discuss this on semediawiki-users mailing list. -- Skierpage 00:34, 14 November 2006 (CET)