Thomas Bleher wrote:

>> I really think that SMW requires a better documentation on new
>> formats of queries, #ask and subqueries. Because the only
>> documentation I've used is outdated:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Substitution
>> e.g. no new features, no subqueries here and so on..
> 
> ??? This page mentions SMW, but it's hardly related to it.
> Have you looked at ontoworld.org or http://semantic-mediawiki.org/?

Specifically, 
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/index.php/Help:Semantic_search for the 
query syntax, and 
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/index.php/Help:Inline_queries for the 
parameters to <ask>.

> I agree that the wiki pages there need improvement,

Never not the case ;-)

>  and hopefully that
> will happen once 1.0 is released 

I've documented many features in SMW 1.0 pre-alpha on ontoworld.org, 
using Template:SMW_prototype_feature to separate them from 0.7.  But not 
#ask, it's newer still.

I did not know until now that the download link on SourceForge provides 
semediawiki-1.0-RC2 --
--> *Congratulations all* !!
Therefore a new user will get 1.0, therefore there's no need to maintain 
0.7-specific information.  That should simplify the help a lot, though 
#ask documentation should still use {{SMW prototype feature}} until the 
SourceForge download has an implementation.

> But
> such documentation doesn't write itself. Maybe you can rework the wiki
> pages on semantic-mediawiki.org with the things you have already learned
> about SMW 1.0.

semantic-mediawiki.org has restricted access.  It has a copy of the 
ontoworld.org help files, I think from around November 28 2007.  Anyone 
can edit ontoworld.org/wiki/Help: pages and someone may pick up their 
edits for the more official documentation; but that someone won't be me 
until mid-December.

Regards,
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=S Page

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