PathfinderWiki talk:Semantic Data Initiative

Releases edge cases

How should the same product being released multiple times, with the same format/rules but on different dates, be handled? This is typically relevant for PFS convention exclusives, which are released to 5-star GMs for convention use, then sometimes re-released later for public sale, such as Facts:Ruins of Bonekeep Level 1: The Silent Grave. This also affects significant reprints (ie. Adventurer's Armory) and versioned products (ie. Pathfinder Society Guide to Play, 'Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild Guide). -Oznogon (talk) 16:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

In practice since, this gets handled as separate releases with release notes to distinguish them. Reprints haven't been documented. Versioned documents haven't been addressed. -Oznogon (talk) 20:55, 11 April 2025 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Authors edge cases

How should adaptations credit authors? This is typically relevant to PACG scenario bundles that adapt a PFRPG product, such as Facts:Ruins of Bonekeep (scenario bundle). -Oznogon (talk) 16:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

References and parser extension tags in fields

How should references (ie. <ref>...</ref>) in descriptions or free text be handled? These appear to result in strip markers ("UNIQ--...") being rendered. cf. closed/wontfix SMW issue 3753; setting $smwgParserFeatures = SMW_PARSER_UNSTRIP is probably also undesirable. -Oznogon (talk) 16:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

As also raised around {{Event}}, references in semantic data seem to be a hard limitation in SMW. -Oznogon (talk) 20:55, 11 April 2025 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Facts article sorting

Should facts articles have {{DEFAULTSORT}} keys? For instance, Category:Facts about Books sorts all books starting with "The" under "T". Or should there be a sort key for titles in the fact data instead (and if so, how)? -Oznogon (talk) 16:40, 6 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Non-book products with Book Facts

Boxed sets such as Beginner Boxes that contain multiple books don't appear to have a good fit in the Books data structure. Should they have their own? Should the books in a box set have their own Books entries, even if they wouldn't have their own product pages or infoboxes? -Oznogon (talk) 16:40, 6 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ended up making their own, i.e. Facts:Beginner Box (Second Edition) Game Master's Guide. Also some fiction collection changes to accommodate compilations like Tales of the Zoetrope. -Oznogon (talk) 20:55, 11 April 2025 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Price

How do we denote the print price and the digital-download price of products like the Harrow Decks, legacy 2E Arcane Spell Deck, or the remaster Arcane Spell Cards? The {Facts/Deck} template's Price parameter doesn't know how to store anything but exactly one number, so attempting to input "$32.99<br>Digital: $14.99" results in an error, making the infobox not display a Price row. Should a {Facts/Deck/Releases} template be implemented in order to cover digital releases? Or even Fantasy Grounds, Foundry, and Roll20 releases? --Descriptivist (talk) 01:17, 11 October 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Still seems like these need a parallel releases page to books. -Oznogon (talk) 20:55, 11 April 2025 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Adventure lead sentences

We seem to be closing in on automatically generating the lead sentences on product articles purely through queries. For instance, this nearly works even with just {{#show...}} invocations:

'''''{{#show:Facts:Heidmarch Heist|?Name}}''''', a {{#show:Facts:Heidmarch Heist|?Series}} scenario written by {{#show:Facts:Heidmarch Heist|?Author}} for tier {{#show:Facts:Heidmarch Heist|?Level range start}}–{{#show:Facts:Heidmarch Heist|?Level range end}}, was released on {{#show:Facts:Heidmarch Heist|?Release date#LOCL}}.

Heidmarch Heist, a Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild, Year of Unfettered Exploration scenario written by Hilary Moon Murphy (2) for tier 5–8, was released on September 27, 2023.

Which raises a question of whether we should do this, since it seems like that would impair search that keys on article contents. The article lead is the only thing that hits for author names in product articles, for instance, because it's not generated from a query template.

A template designed to be substituted with {{subst:...}} might be useful to streamline new product page creation if it's consistent. -Oznogon (talk) 20:55, 11 April 2025 (UTC)Reply[reply]