Help:$smwgCompactLinkSupport

is a configuration parameter that sets whether compact links will be used to link to special pages, and .CiteRef::gh:smw:3017 The configuration parameter was introduced in. Originally enabled by default, this configuration parameter is starting with disabled by default.CiteRef::gh:smw:3856

The mentioned special pages can contain arbitrary text elements and therefore become difficult to transfer when its length exceeds a certain character length. A compact link will thus be encoded and compressed to ensure that it can be handled more easily when referring to it as an URL representation.

Default setting
This means that compact links will not be used to link to query special pages.

Changing the default setting
To modify the setting to this configuration parameter, add one of the following lines to your "LocalSettings.php" file after the  call:

This means that compact links will be used to link to query special pages.
 * Enable the usage of compact links