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Hello. Joined after discussing with Greg at WR. As you see from my user page I'm still struggling with the 'ask' queries. Well, not struggling much but my main interest is building an academic resource which would allow searching for philosophers (or any other historical figure) by the period they were flourishing in. My struggle is with the ISO date format which is of course a string, but all date searches involve ordering of some sort, so how do you convert date strings into orderable units? Well I can see the ISO format used can be sorted, but then for medieval philosophers the best we usually have is year of birth. So to I create a pretend date format 1265-00-00 which is orderable, or just 1265 (which it seems to understand). Any help appreciated. [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 05:21, 28 January 2008 (PST)
Hello. Joined after discussing with Greg at WR. As you see from my user page I'm still struggling with the 'ask' queries. Well, not struggling much but my main interest is building an academic resource which would allow searching for philosophers (or any other historical figure) by the period they were flourishing in. My struggle is with the ISO date format which is of course a string, but all date searches involve ordering of some sort, so how do you convert date strings into orderable units? Well I can see the ISO format used can be sorted, but then for medieval philosophers the best we usually have is year of birth. So to I create a pretend date format 1265-00-00 which is orderable, or just 1265 (which it seems to understand). Any help appreciated. [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 05:21, 28 January 2008 (PST)
: Update: got it to work. Joy [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 05:33, 28 January 2008 (PST)
: Update: got it to work. Joy [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 05:33, 28 January 2008 (PST)
[UPDATE] Yes I think this is going to be v exciting. The idea of using rankings for biographical subjects (so that one can compare relative rankings of topics in standard reference sources for notability and also, with probably amusing results, comparing with the Wikipedia ranking, e.g. by in k, or in equivalent pages of A4) is powerful. No one has ever done this.
However I am having some trouble getting the attribute thing to work. I have defined the attribute correctly I think, here [[Attribute:Ccmp Pages]]. One page, namely [[Thomas Aquinas]] has the attribute embedded as <nowiki> | ccmp_pages = [[Ccmp Pages:= 17]] </nowiki>, but the system doesn't seem to recognise it. If someone could show me how to do this I could beef up the help pages a little. [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 08:16, 28 January 2008 (PST)