SMW queries

Here you can see some examples for simple queries using the metadata of a wiki page. You can add these queries to any wiki page.

Creating page lists

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

• Accessibility
• Accessibility/Extensions
• Accessibility/Extensions/legacy list
• Accessibility/Extensions/notchecked

... further results

Notes:

[[:+]] show Pages in the Main namespace. [[Myspace:+]] shows pages in the namespace Myspace.

[[:+||Help:+]]shows pages in the Main namespace and in the namespace Help.

Output in category style

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

A

• Accessibility
• Accessibility/Extensions
• Accessibility/Extensions/legacy list
• Accessibility/Extensions/notchecked
• Accessibility/VPAT BS4

A cont.

• AccessibilityReport.form
• Announcement/Log4Shell
• Announcement/XSS attack
• Apache license 2.0
• Attachments

B

• BSD 3-Clause
• Bitv.form
• ... further results

Show pages from a category

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

1. Config manager
2. Extended statistics
3. Footer
4. Main navigation

Seiten mit gleichem Namensanfang

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

List of pages in the Main namespace and in the namespace Manual that begin with "Visu".

Results format: Table

Format "broadtable"

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

Format "datatable"

{{#ask: 
[[~Visu*]][[:+||Handbuch:+]]
[[Modification date::+]]<!-- necessary to filter deleted pages -->
| limit=5 
| searchlabel=
| format=table
| class=datatable
}}

Related info

• SMW "ask" queries
• SMW result formats

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