Help:Maintenance

In order to fully utilize and maintain a Semantic MediaWiki instance, certain maintenance tasks are required to help optimize the system, minimize on-wiki interventions, and keep the administrative work at a minimum.

Property annotation health (a.k.a. semantic gardening)
It is general good practice to monitor the property annotation health and if necessary improve statements or queries that cause an improper value annotation.

Cron jobs
Plan and optimize cron jobs.

MediaWiki settings
The following settings can influence Semantic MediaWiki in how certain subjects are visible or updated due to execution (or non execution) of scripts owned by MediaWiki in terms of template, special page updates etc.


 * − Sets whether to disable database-intensive features, so that they can be managed/controlled separately
 * − Sets the number of jobs to perform per request

Note
There was some discussion on the mailing list about the occasions it is required to run .CiteRef::mail:user:smw:tc5074165