MediaWiki Pages¶
General Information about Pages¶
Pages are the central containers in MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki1 for storing content.
The content of wiki pages is expressed using the Semantic MediaWiki syntax and the datamodel elements provided by Semantic MediaWiki.
Every page needs to have a distinct name and must be created in a unique, pre-defined namespace.
The page name together with the namespace become parts of the page’s URL.
Example: {Semantic_MediaWiki_URL}\namespace:page_name
Please note that pages in MediaWiki do not have a file type postfix (ie., a file type indicator)
The contents of every wiki page is transformed into HTML when the page is rendered in the browser.
In Semantic MediaWiki, a page hosts the annotations in which the page (represented technically through its URL) serves as subject.
Ie., whenever we want to make statements about a page (actually it is the “thing” represented by that page) we encode such factual knowledge as property-value pairs or subobjects on that page.
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In the following, MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki pages are referred to as wiki pages when the provided information applies to both of them. ↩