Archive:Special:Ask 1.0

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Help:Special:Ask en 1.0 1.4.2

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Special:Ask
Special page "Browse"
Semantic search
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Displaying information
Result formats
Inline queries
Querying for queries
Concepts
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Using the API
Semantic Web
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SMW admin manual
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The ask special page, which can be found at Special:Ask, provides an interface that assists you with creating and executing semantic queries. It has 2 textfields. The first one, titled 'Query' is for selecting pages. The second one, titled 'Additional data to display', makes the querying additional data possible. You can then run the query by hitting the 'find results' button in the lower left corner of the page, after which the results will be shown.

See also

• Browsing interfaces: introduces all simple browsing interfaces of SMW, including the Factbox
• Semantic search: covers advanced semantic queries, as are also used for inline queries