Hi all,

SMW 1.0 has changed some basic things in how SMW works, for example:

* the Relation: namespace became obsolete, and
* <ask> was replaced by #ask with a cleaner syntax and better interaction with 
MediaWiki.

For backwards compatibility, we have still kept the now obsolete features. But 
it is not very convenient that all new SMW installations still have a 
Relation namespace (that shows up on Special_Search etc.) and also things 
like the *-print requests in queries do not work very well with new SMW 
features (e.g. the new Special:Ask has a separate field for ?printouts).

Therefore, all future SMW versions will by default disable SMW<1.0 specific 
features. If you have a wiki where old features are still in use, you can  
reenable them by setting $smwgSMWBetaCompatible = true; in LocalSettings.php. 
You can switch this on and off as you like -- it does not make any permanent 
changes in the wiki (of course, switching namespaces on or off affects links 
in the wiki, and you may want to run MediaWiki's refreshLinks.php if you have 
links to [[Relation:...]]).

I also ask all developers to check whether their code requires things like 
<ask> or [[property::*]] to work as in SMW 0.7, and to update to the current 
syntax instead.

Cheers,

Markus

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Markus Krötzsch
Semantic MediaWiki    http://semantic-mediawiki.org
http://korrekt.org    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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