Help:SMWSearch

The SMWSearch feature is supported since CiteRef::gh:smw:450. It provides a search engine to allow semantic queries directly from MediaWiki's standard search by trying to interpret the search term as a semantic query. If successful, the pages according to the query will be returned, if not it will fall back to the default search engine.

Special page "Search" will show an informatory messageCiteRef::gh:smw:2738 including a cheat sheetCiteRef::gh:smw:3123 in case this feature was enabled as well as the optional input assistance feature starting with. The informatory message for the search including the a cheat sheet may be disabled by a user via the respective user preference.CiteRef::gh:smw:3120

More importantly also brought a full-text search on unstructured data, i.e. content not stored semantically via annotations, indicated by syntax element  .CiteRef::gh:smw:3116

Usage
Entering  into the standard search field of the wiki's skin or on special page "Search" will return all pages matching these selection parameters together with additional page content, e.g. if used on this wiki: click here.

The selection of pages will match the following inline query:

Entering  will additionally highlight "Points of interest" within the additional page content shown for the pages resulting from the search.

Configuration
Users of "SMWSearch" should use the following configuration settings in their "LocalSettings.php" file after the  call: