Category talk:Chronology

What is this category for? -- Chuckhoffmann 06:56, 23 February 2012 (EST)
What is this category going to be for?

Re: What is this category for? -- Joshdoe 07:34, 23 February 2012 (EST)

 * It doesn't seem there are any articles in this category, and there's no category article either. How did you find this category? I could imagine this category could be used for future articles like Chronology of Fairfax County, if there's too much content to fit on the main Fairfax County article.

Re: Re: What is this category for? -- Chuckhoffmann 10:36, 23 February 2012 (EST)

 * Select "Community portal" from the side menu and it's the third link down on the Fairfaxpedia:Community portal page. If it's for year articles, like what I have on FracturedFairfax (see 1950 for a single year article and Category:Fairfax County by Year for a similar category for examples), that's great, but I just need to know what the vision is before I go off creating a bunch of stuff.

Re: Re: Re: What is this category for? -- Frank Muraca 12:02, 23 February 2012 (EST)

 * Yes, it's something similar to that. I found it from Cvillpedia. They use it for birth years for people and notable events for articles. I thought we could use it for similar purposes.

Re: Re: Re: Re: What is this category for? -- Joshdoe 12:10, 23 February 2012 (EST)

 * We might want to think about how to use SMW for this. Once we add SMW properties to the people infoboxes, creating a list or table of people by birth date is trivial. Of course it's not a hand crafted list, so we'd have to think carefully how to construct it.

Re: Re: Re: Re: What is this category for? -- Chuckhoffmann 19:58, 23 February 2012 (EST)

 * I've lifted the category structure from Cvillepedia for the Fairfax County Park Authority article: it now has the category 1950 establishments. I also added the semantic wiki property "date established" to that article. Is this the appropriate place for a discussion of semantic wiki properties for dates, or should we have that somewhere else?--Chuckhoffmann 19:58, 23 February 2012 (EST)

=Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What is this category for? -- Joshdoe 22:06, 23 February 2012 (EST)
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 * That seems like a pretty good property name. However with that property we don't need to create categories, instead we can create queries or concepts like this:

For further discussions on properties I suggest we use the talk page at Fairfaxpedia:Properties. I think it's particularly important to put SMW properties into infobox templates.