Add item

From Discourse DB

To add an item to the site:

• Fill out the fields in the form below. The fields in the "Opinion" section are optional.
• Hit "Preview".
• This will take you to the main "preview" page, which shows you how the item will appear on the site. Make sure that it looks alright; you can change any of the fields on that page, by editing the template that appears below the preview.
• When you want to save the item, scroll down to the bottom of that screen and hit "Save page".

About this form: this is a custom form, created in PHP, that was developed in December 2006, before the Semantic Forms extension was invented (and in fact, it served as the inspiration for Semantic Forms). The reason this site still uses this form is that it supports autocompletion on the "Position" field based on the value selected for the "Topic" field. You may recognize "Topic" and "Position" as an n-ary relation, since the second value is dependent on the first. Since Semantic MediaWiki does not fully support n-ary relations, Discourse DB has its own workaround to handle topics and positions (and stances), one that can't currently be duplicated by Semantic Forms.