Best Practices for Forms and Templates

Links

• https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Properties_and_types
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms/Defining_forms

Conventions

• Use Sentence case property names
• Use verb phrases (like "Has capital") - see https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Property_naming

You can assign the type of a property and restrict a property's value by creating a page for that property.

 This is a property of type [[Has type::Text]].
 
 The allowed values for this property are:
 * [[Allows value::Idea]]
 * [[Allows value::In development]]
 * [[Allows value::Draft]]
 

Also, the following create a link to a property page and show its information:

 [[Property:Has_paper_status]]
 {{Property:Has_paper_status}}
 

Notes

Check that you did the following:

• Put the category in the template itself
• Make sure that there is a default form associated with the template

 {{#default_form:McNair Projects}}
 [[category:McNair Projects]]
 

Use simple assignment whenever possible:

 | label6       = Start Date
 | data6        = [[Start date::{{{Start date|}}}]] 
 

If you have to use an array ref, here's the syntax:

 | label5      = Owner
 | data5       = {{#arraymap:{{{Owner|}}}|,|x|[[Owner::x]]}}
 

Temp Links to Project Pages

The following pages need their templates fixing:

• Accelerator Industry Classification (Data)
• Accelerator Seed List (Data)
• Accelerators (Data)
• America Invents Act
• Business Dynamism in High Tech (Issue Brief)
• Carried Interest Debate (Wiki Page)
• Challenges Women Entrepreneurs Face (Wiki Page)
• Christy Warden (Twitter Crawler Application 1)
• Christy Warden (Twitter Crawler Application 2)
• Current Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policies (Wiki Page)
• E&I Governance Policy Report
• Enclosing Circle Algorithm
• Eventbrite Webcrawler (Tool)
• Google Scholar Crawler
• Governance Measures
• Government Regulations affecting Small Businesses (Issue Brief)
• Govtrack Webcrawler (Wiki Page)
• Guide to Patent Litigation
• Houston Accelerators (issue brief)
• Houston Accelerators and Incubators (Report)
• Industry Classifier
• LBO Lit Review
• Matching VentureOne (Data)
• Mechanical Turk (Tool)
• Moroccan Parliament Web Crawler
• Overconfidence Papers
• Patent Data (Wiki Page)
• Patent Variables (Wiki Page)
• SBA Investigation (Report)
• Shelby Bice (Redesigning Patent Database)
• Start Up Address Finder Algorithm (Tool)
• Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief)
• Start-Ups of Houston (Map)
• Stock and Flows of Publicly Traded Companies (Report)
• The Matcher (Tool)
• Tshirt!
• Twitter Webcrawler (Tool)
• Twitterverse Exploration
• University Patents
• URL Finder (Tool)
• Venture Capital (Data)
• Women in Entrepreneurship (Issue Brief)