Semantic MediaWiki/markup

property embedding

SMW introduces a new syntactical structure of the form [[property name::property value]], which may optionally be written with a display parameter: [[property name::property value|display text]]. Both of these formats cause the current page to be assigned the value <property name> with the value <property value>. The same value can be assigned to several properties with this syntax: [[property1 name::property2 name::value for both]].

To set a property without displaying anything, there are two alternative forms:

• [[property name::property value| ]]
  • In this form, the space between the "|" and "]]" is required)
• {{#set:property name=property value}}
  • This form allows brackets ("[" and "]") to be used in the property value by default; the other form can only allow it in Text data if $smwgParserFeatures has the SMW_PARSER_LINV attribute set.
  • This form may not work within parser tag extensions (e.g. W3TPL's <hide> tag).

parser functions

SMW also uses a few standard-form parser functions:

• #ask
• #declare
• #info
• #set
• #set_recurring_event
• #show

See Displaying_information#Display_format for at least some information about formatting values.

formats

• result formats: output of an #ask or #show
• field formats: formatting an individual field in a result
• property types: list of native property types

notes

case-sensitivity

• For MediaWiki deployments where initial characters in article titles are not automatically capitalized (the default is to capitalize them):
  • In #ask queries, the word "Category" is case-sensitive; [[category:...]] will not work.
• Where initial characters are automatically capitalized, all property-names will be capitalized, even if they are specified as lower-case.
  • Example: If a page contains [[test thing::sample value]], any queries which make use of "test thing" must refer to it as "Test thing" or the value will not be found.
• Special properties are also case-sensitive: e.g. [[Has type:string]] correctly references the special "Has type" property, but [[has type::string]] refers only to a non-special "has type" property.