4 SMW queries

Latest revision as of 11:35, 30 September 2022

Here you can see some examples for simple queries using the page properties. You can add these queries to any page.

4.1 Creating page lists

4.1.1 Show pages in a particular namespace

{{#ask:
[[:+]]  <!-- find all pages in the main namespace -->
[[Modification date::+]]<!-- necessary to filter deleted pages -->
|format=ul
|limit=4
}}

Output example in list style format:

... further results

Notes:

[[:+]] shows pages from the Main namespace.

[[Myspace:+]] shows pages from the namespace Myspace.

[[:+||Help:+]] shows pages from both the Main namespace and the namespace Help (=OR argument)

4.1.2 Output in category style

{{#ask:
[[:+]][[Modification date::+]]
|format=category
|limit=12
}}

Output example:

A

B

C

C cont.

Create articles

D

4.1.3 Show pages from a category

{{#ask: 
[[Category:Administration]] 
| limit=4 
| searchlabel=
| format=ol 
}}

4.1.4 Pages that start with the same page name string

{{#ask: 
[[~Edit*]][[:+]]
[[Modification date::+]]<!-- necessary to filter deleted pages -->
| limit=5 
| searchlabel=
| format=ol 
}}

List of pages in the ES namespace that begin with "Edit".

4.2 Results format: Table

4.2.1 Format "broadtable"

{{#ask: 
[[~Edit*]][[:+]]
[[Modification date::+]]<!-- necessary to filter deleted pages -->
| limit=5 
| searchlabel=
| format=broadtable
}}


Edit articles
Edit articles/Tables

4.2.2 Format "datatable"

{{#ask: 
[[~Edit*]][[:+]]
[[Modification date::+]]<!-- nötig um gelöschte Seiten zu filtern -->
|?Last editor is
| searchlabel=
| format=table
| class=datatable
}}

	Last editor is"Last editor is" is a predefined property that contains the page name of the user who created the last revision and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.
Edit articles	WikiSysop
Edit articles/Tables	WikiSysop