Help:Semantic Properties

Semantic Properties
Click on "Browse properties" on left sidebar for each of the semantic properties.
 * Properties United States Sidebars
 * Properties England County Sidebars
 * Properties British Isle Sidebars

Searching for pages using Semantic Properties

 * The Semantic coding can be likened to an SQL, however it is only for Wiki’s.
 * To illustrate: let’s say that you want to make sure that there is a page entitled "Alabama Cemeteries."
 * 1) Create a property which we will name: “has cemeteries.”
 * 2) Put this property in this semantic coding:  After the equal sign is the Alabama page we are looking for.
 * 3) Next save this coding to a page.
 * 4) Click on “Browse properties” at the bottom of the left side menu on the page where you saved this semantic coding.
 * 5) A two column table will appear.
 * The left column will be the property you are looking for, in this case “has Cemeteries.” The right side you will see a link to a page title, in this case “Alabama Cemeteries.”  The link will be either in blue or red.  Of course, if the link to the page is blue, the page exists, however, if the link is red the page does not exist.


 * Granted you can do the same thing with fewer steps by a simple search looking for Alabama Cemeteries, but you can only search for one page at a time.
 * Now here is where Semantic Wiki shows its power. With a pipe symbol “|” separating each page you are looking for, you can search to see if each state has a page on cemeteries with only one inquiry.  Here is an example:


 * Notice each state is separated by a “|” pipe. You can add an unlimited amount of pages to search.
 * In this example for cemeteries, maybe 47 states have a page on cemeteries but three states do not.
 * This you found out in one inquiry rather than search for each of them one at a time. Again, Semantic coding allows you to search for any number of pages at once with a certain property.
 * This you found out in one inquiry rather than search for each of them one at a time. Again, Semantic coding allows you to search for any number of pages at once with a certain property.


 * Click here to see if all the US state sidebars have all the “record types:” https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Properties_United_States_Sidebars.