http://nwod.org/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Type%3APage 2026-05-11T12:29:06Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.16.1 http://nwod.org/wiki/index.php?title=Type:Page&diff=12871&oldid=prev 2010-08-16T02:28:30Z

<p>1 revision</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The datatype '''page''' is used for properties whose value is a page in the wiki.<br /> These display as a link.<br /> <br /> This is the default type of a [[Property]]. In other words, if you write &lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[[Brand New Prop::Some Value]]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;, SMW assumes ''Brand New Prop'' is of type Page and that ''Some Value'' is a page in the wiki (whether or not it exists).<br /> Note that &quot;Properties of type “Page”&quot; below only lists properties that explcitly state their type as ''page'';<br /> it does not list pages that don't list a type and default to this.<br /> See [[Special:Properties]] for all properties in use in the wiki.<br /> <br /> == Page datatype versus String ==<br /> You can use Type:Page in most cases where you would use [[Type:String]].<br /> Making the property value a Wiki page allows you to document each possible value in the wiki.<br /> It is not an error if there is no page yet for the value, and this can encourage consistency guide as links to non-existent pages appear differently. Viewing the page for a value in the [[Special:Browse|Semantic Browser]] will show all the pages and relations for which it it the object.<br /> <br /> If the possible values of the property<br /> * are a large set<br /> * may be longer than the maximum page name<br /> * do not have much useful documentation<br /> then using Type:String may be better.<br /> <br /> In earlier versions of SMW, properties of Type:Page were known as ''relations''.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Semantic MediaWiki documentation]]</div>

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