Archive:Configuration 1.5.0

Semantic MediaWiki offers a number of configuration options that site administrators may modify according to the particular needs of their wiki. This page explains all options of SMW 1.5.1. All available options can also be found in the file of your current version. To change any configuration setting, copy the according assignment into your LocalSettings.php, after including SMW as described in installation. Do not change SMW_Settings.php directly, as your changes would be overwritten in software upgrades.

Installation settings
The following settings relate to the basic installation of SMW.

Interface settings
The following settings are relevant for the general appearance of various wiki pages in SMW, as well as for browsing interfaces such as Special:Browse.

Query settings
Settings for inline queries and for semantic queries in general. This can especially be used to prevent overly high server-load by complex queries. The following settings affect all queries, wherever they occur.

Settings for inline queries and Special:Ask
The following settings affect inline queries and querying special pages, in particular Special:Ask. Essentially they should mirror the kind of queries that should immediately be answered by the wiki, using whatever computations are needed.

Settings for concept queries
Further settings for queries. The following settings affect queries that are part of concept pages. These are usually chosen to be less restricted than inline queries, since there are two other means for controlling their use:


 * 1) Concept queries that would not be allowed as normal queries will not be executed directly, but can use pre-computed results instead. This is the default. See Concept caching for details on how to exploit this.
 * 2) The whole Concept: namespace can be restricted (using some suitable MediaWiki extension) to an experienced user group that may create more complex queries resonably. Other users can employ thus defined concepts in their queries.

Other settings
The following settings usually need no modification.