Help:Relation

=Semantic relations and attributes=
 * Warning: This is very much under construction, and very much broken in many places. I am however one to let my users see what I am working on instead of holding it back until it is perfectly perfect - especially when MY changes will force THEM to make many changes to their side of the bargain (the articles they create). So, start integrating these features into your article if you like - but make sure it doesn't totally break something on a popular article!

Relations between articles "::"
EnterWiki now offers a new feature, it allows you to give links a type. Instead of merely linking from the article San Diego to California, you can now &mdash; if you like &mdash; additionally state the kind of relation between San Diego and California. We can probably agree that San Diego is located in California. You can state this fact by writing in the San Diego page this fine city is in is located in::California ...

Before the linked article name, you give the type of the relationship, separated by two colons.

You can use any string for the relation type, but it would be great to use the same strings as other people, much like categories. Consistent relations let users make smarter searches of Wikipedia; instead of every article that links to California, they can, for example, search for every article that is located in California.

Each relation type may have its own page in the Relation: namespace that describes it, for example Relation:Is located in. For a list of the relations that have such pages, use the all articles query page to display articles in the Relation namespace.

Hint:  is a::use as::fruit
 * If you want to define a relation which is not visible in the Text, simply rename it to a space and place it at the bottom of a page:
 * Attributes can get chained. Therefore instead of: is a::fruit use as::fruit you can use:

Attributes ":=" are relations to values
Relationships to things that are not articles can be stated by using attributes. If you know that the population of San Diego is 1,305,736, you can state this fact by writing in the San Diego page: the 2005 census estimated its population as population:=1,305,736

You put the value inside , and before it you give the type of the attribute, separated by :=

For a list of attributes, use the all articles query page to display articles in the Attribute namespace.

You can search on attributes, such as population.

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