Help:Advanced editing

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Show
The "show" parser function is used a lot to make semantic queries. If the property you are querying is of type page, however, you need a special parameter to include that string within another internal link.

For example, this: congressional districts and candidates

yields this: congressional districts and candidates

but when you add "link=none" like this: congressional districts and candidates

you get this: congressional districts and candidates

Click extension
Use the "click" extension to have images link to pages, so you can make clickable images with destinations.

For example, this:

Makes this:

MediaWiki

 * Help:Magic words. Includes functions like "padleft"
 * Extension:StringFunctions
 * Extension:Header Tabs
 * How to make image links in mediawiki (like ……. )
 * External image internal link
 * Wikipedia:Collapsible tables

Semantic MediaWiki

 * Extension:Semantic Forms
 * Help:Semantic templates
 * Help:Selecting pages
 * Help:Inline queries
 * Help:Semantic Result Formats
 * Help:Displaying information
 * Repairing SMW's data
 * Help:Timeline format
 * New visualization for SMW: Exhibit and Ploticus