[Semediawiki-user] Long List of Pages

[Douglas M. <dou...@gm...>]

Dear All,

The following suggestion worked for me, since it easy to format a list using
search/replace. However, I'm now left wondering: why on earth can normal
links NOT be used as a semantic property just like semantic links? This
would clear up a lot of headaches and be supremely useful. For instance,

{{#ask: [[Page]]|?links to}} should give list of outgoing links from page
[[Page]]
{{#ask: [[-links to::Page]]}} should give the list of incoming links to page
[[Page]], using the inverse property language

I really think "links to" should be a standard property just like
"modification date". I have no idea why it hasn't been implemented already.

Here's the convoluted solution to this common problem:

If a page called [[List Page]] contains your list of pages, and it looks
like this:

* [[Page1]]
* [[Page2]]
* [[Page3]]
* [[Page4]]
* [[Page5]]

transform it into something like this:

* [[links to::Page1]]
* [[links to::Page2]]
* [[links to::Page3]]
* [[links to::Page4]]
* [[links to::Page5]]

You should then be able to query these pages like this:

{{#ask: [[-links to::List Page]]}}