Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> On Freitag, 1. Januar 2010, Daniel Friesen wrote:
>
>> I've taken to the less lazy tactic of making postings to the mailing
>> list hoping someone else who is better at writing will do the
>> documentation ;).
>>
>> Hmmm... maybe I missed one. Is my feature of the {{{#}}} variable in
>> #ask templates documented?
>>
>
> Look as if the person who documented it is not on this list, or it is not
> documented anywhere yet. I don't recall that feature.
>
> -- Markus
>
I wrote the feature. I had a use case for it in one wiki I was setting
up, so I added the feature to SMW.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>>
>> Markus Krötzsch wrote:
>>
>>> Dear developers,
>>>
>>> I came across the "hidden feature" of random sorting again today when I
>>> cleaned up the related code and fixed various issues that it still had.
>>> It was impossible to disable this performance-critical feature in SMW,
>>> although a global variable had been introduced for that purpose (it was
>>> never used)!
>>>
>>> I traced back the code and found that it had been committed based on a
>>> patch that was submitted to Bugzilla (not blaming anyone here, the
>>> committer may even have notified one of us core devs to check the code
>>> ...). Obviously, the code was not properly reviewed or tested, and the
>>> feature was not documented until recently. We should really try to avoid
>>> such cases in the future. Especially, any Bugzilla patch should be
>>> reviewed by a developer who is familiar with the affected code before
>>> being committed. I know that it can be tempting: someone offers a patch
>>> for adding a long-wanted feature, and it is so easy to just commit it
>>> without further ado -- unfortunately we need to resist this kind of
>>> temptation ;-).
>>>
>>> Since we are heading toward SMW 1.5, I would also like to ask all SMW-
>>> committers to double-check that all new features that you committed in
>>> the past months are mentioned in the file RELEASE-NOTES, and documented
>>> on semantic-mediawiki.org. It is really a pity if useful features go
>>> unnoticed simply because we forget to go that final mile of documenting
>>> them properly.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your support,
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>> On Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009, Philipp Zaltenbach wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have updated the documentation at semantic-mediawiki.org. See
>>>> * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries#Sorting_results
>>>> * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Configuration#Query_settings
>>>>
>>>> It would be nice if anyone could double check.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Philipp
>>>>
>>>> Patrick Nagel schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2009-12-11 01:38 UTC Alex Kozak wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm wondering if there is a way to do a random sort in #ask queries
>>>>>> (maybe with something like order=random), and if not, if anyone has
>>>>>> any ideas on how to accomplish this (sanely) with templates and
>>>>>> parsers?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Did you try 'order=random'? It should work in current versions, but for
>>>>> an unknown reason it's currently not documented on
>>>>> semantic-mediawiki.org.
>>>>>
>>>>> See http://old.nabble.com/Random-Sort-in-SMW-1.4-td20670044.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Patrick.
>>>>>
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