On Mittwoch, 5. August 2009, Yaron Koren wrote:
> This is great news! I've been looking forward to this new version for a
> while.
> There are various other changes that got into in version 1.4.3, added by
> myself and others, that you didn't mention; these include:

I try to monitor SVN commits but I still miss some things from time to time. 
It would really help if contributors could make a note on their feature in the 
RELEASE-NOTES file, and send an email to the lists for making others aware of 
them. Also, do not forget to document new features on semantic-mediawiki.org 
(or at least to notify someone that documentation is needed).

>
> - a new 'category' format, that displays results in the MediaWiki
> category-page style
> - a new 'columns' parameter for the 'ol' and 'ul' formats

Two very useful things indeed.

> - use of '~::' in queries for geographic coordinates, not just strings.

Yes, I saw that one. I was not sure about the 5 mile default. Why miles? How 
can you change this?

>
> Is there a reason why you didn't include them in the features list? If not,
> could you please add them?

See above. Feel free to add them to semantic-mediawiki.org.

-- Markus

>
> -Yaron
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Markus Krötzsch <
>
> mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
> > Wrong sender email again ... this should of course also go to the devel
> > list.
> > -- Markus
> >
> > On Mittwoch, 5. August 2009, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > the new version of Semantic MediaWiki, SMW 1.4.3, is now available for
> > > download [1] and in SVN [2]. This is still a minor release, but it
> > > still brings some new features and a significant number of bug fixes.
> > >
> > > Please run the database initialization after upgrading (this will add
> > > one new special property that will otherwise not appear on the Special
> > > pages that list properties).
> > >
> > > Further details are given at [3]. Main new features:
> > >
> > > * Tracking input errors using the new special property "Has improper
> >
> > value
> >
> > > for"
> > > * Searching for all values of a property using Special:PageProperty
> > > * More options for displaying query results (empty output format,
> > > headers=plain)
> > > * Some new configuration options
> > >
> > > Enjoy,
> > >
> > > Markus
> > >
> > > [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/
> > > [2]
> >
> > http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaW
> >ik
> >
> > >i/REL_1_4_3/ [3] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_1.4.3
> >
> > --
> > Markus Krötzsch
> > Semantic MediaWiki    http://semantic-mediawiki.org
> > http://korrekt.org    mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org
> >
> >
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