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What is the Semantic Wiki?
Ability to see if a particular item is on a page or not. For example, let say we want to made sure that every United State's state page has a link to a page about cemeteries in that state? By using semantic coding we see if there is a link to a page on cemeteries for each state at once rather than look at each state individually. It can be likened to an SQL, however it is only for Wiki’s.

Semantic Properties

 * This is an example of semantic coding:
 * #set - is the semantic coding to select a property.
 * has cemeteries - is the property we are looking for.
 * after the equal sign is the page we are seeing if it exists which is in this case Alabama Cemeteries

Searching for pages using Semantic Properties
Click on the links below to see what pages that each state has in its infobox.
 * To illustrate: let’s say we want to make sure that every state in the USA has a page on cemeteries for that state.
 * 1) Let call the page "United State Cemetery Pages"
 * 2) On this page we will type
 * 3) After saving the page you now see United State Cemetery Pages.
 * 4) Click on the link and you will see nothing below the title.
 * 5) Next click on "Browse properties" at the very bottom of the left hand menu. You should see this: Properties.
 * 6) You should see "Has cemeteries" with Alabama Cemeteries next to it.
 * 7) Now to add more states, simply separate each state title with a pipe like so:
 * 8) To see a complete page showing all states have a page on cemeteries, click here.
 * 9) Click on "browse properities" again.
 * 10) Notice that you only see the first 20 or so states. You then have to click on the three little dotes after the last state shown to see more.
 * 11) As you can see all the states have a page on cemeteries.
 * 12) Check out this page to see if all states have Divorce Records.
 * 13) Click on "Browse properties" and you will see from the red links that not all states have divorce records.

Searches made with properties

 * Properties United States Sidebars
 * Properties England County Sidebars
 * Properties British Isle Sidebars
 * Properties Scandinavan Sidebars

TRY THESE OUT . . ..
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