Help:Semantic tags
Semantic Tagging is a facility provided by the Semantic MediaWiki Extension to allow for more in-depth information to be provided. It is being used here on Shifti to bolster categorization and provide for more complex searches.
Available Tags
At the moment we have defined tags for authors, titles, settings, types of transformation, species of transformation, degree of transformation, base page type and a tag specifically meant for use on authors User: pages.
The 'title' and 'author' tags are set automatically by the Title Template, the Byline Template and the Info Template. While the 'settings' tag is set by the Universe Template and the Info Template.
To set the "type", "species" and "degree" tags we provide the TF Type Template, the TF Species Template and the TF Degree Template. If a story contains only one transformation – and that transformation is into one a simpler form – you can use the TF Tag Template.
For setting the type of page we offer the Fiction Template, the Non-Fiction template, the Essay Template, the Example Template, the Review Template and the Help Template.
Notes
Multiple Values
Each tag sets the specified 'semantic property' – these are what the system is looking at when you query for the value set. Each property has to be set with a single value at a time, but that doesn't mean that a property can only store a single value at a time. For instance, a transformation into a minotaur based on an auroch has two different 'TF Types' – 'Mythical' and 'Animal' – which means that you'd want to add {{TF Type|Mythical}} and {{TF Type|Animal}} to it. Doing such will give the pages 'TF Type' semantic property two values – 'Mythical' and 'Animal'.
Enumerated Value Properties
Two of the pre-defined properties have a specifically defined range of possible values. These are the TF Type property and the TF Degree property. There is a limited description of what the different available values are at the pages about those properties.
TF Type
The TF Type property has six possible values - 'Mental', 'Animal', 'Gender', 'Mythical', 'Inanimate' and 'Plant'. Each of those values has specific a specific meaning that is enumerated below.
- Mental
- The transformation affects the mind of the transformed
- Animal
- The transformation is into an animal form. Used alone it generally refers to an existing animal
- Gender
- The transformation affected the gender of the transformed – perhaps flipped it from Male to Female or vice-versa
- Mythical
- The transformation is into a mythical creature of some sort. Combine with 'Animal' it refers to a mythical animal
- Inanimate
- The transformation is into a form that does not meet the conventional definition of life
- Plant
- The transformation is into a plant or a plant-like form
TF Degree
The TF Degree property has three possible values. These values describe the depth, or 'degree' of the change - from little more than superficial changes to a change completely into the animal. Those three values are 'Superficial', 'Anthro' and 'Full Form'.
- Superficial
- The transformation is superficial — minor to the point of being able to be ignored entirely
- Anthro
- This is a 'halfway' form — a gender type of TF could mean this is a "she-male" and for mental changes this could mean "instincts"
- Full Form
- This means a complete change — the change is completely into the other form
Tag Use
The tags are relatively simple to use – they are just templates and like all templates you use them by doing {{<template name>}}. But because the help on the template pages is very scarce<ref>ShadowWolf would like to apologize for that. He just asks that you not lynch him over it - the upgrade caused many problems that were not even hinted at in the release notes for the new code base</ref> you can find some usage information below.
TF tag
The TF Tag template ({{TF tag}}) is a convenience template for setting a single 'TF Type', 'TF Species' and 'TF Degree' property.
{{TF tag
| type=<TF Type>
| degree=<TF Degree>
| species=<TF Species>
}}
This can (and was meant to) be used in conjunction with ancillary {{TF Type}}, {{TF Degree}} and {{TF Species}} flags. Example:{{TF tag | type=Animal | degree=Anthro | species=Wolf}}
Simpler Tags
The rest of the tags are very simple in use and require little in the way of in-depth explanation.
TF Type
{{TF Type|<TF Type>}} – this means that to flag a TF into an animal form occurring in a given story, you'd just insert {{TF Type|Animal}} somewhere in the text.
TF Degree
{{TF Degree|<TF Degree>}} – you use this the same as the TF Type Template. For instance, if a story contains a total transformation, you'd note this with {{TF Degree|Full Form}} somewhere in the text.
TF Species
{{TF Species|<Species>}} – this is even easier to use than the TF Type Template and the TF Degree Template. In fact, the 'Species' parameter is free form. To mark a transformation into a wolf as occurring in a story, you just stick {{TF Species|wolf}} somewhere in the text.
Universe tag
Unless you are averse to the existing {{universe}} and {{info}} templates there is no reason to directly use this template, as the two I mentioned use this template to set the 'setting' semantic property. To use it directly to flag a story as being in Jon Sleepers 'Paradise' setting, you'd simply add {{universe tag|Paradise}} to the text.
Utility Tags
There are several 'utility tags' that are defined simply to flag the type of page that exists. These are Fiction, Non-Fiction, Essay, Review, Help and Example. These templates have no parameters and only one of them should exist on any page. To use them, simply follow the classic 'template insertion' rule – that is, stick the name of the template inside curly-braces (ie: {{help}}).<ref>I reassure you that there is no need to have both 'Non-Fiction' and 'Essay' (or 'Review' or 'Help') on the same page - 'Essay', 'Review' and 'Help' all set both the 'Non-Fiction' page-type property and the page-type property for which they are named.</ref>