SMW (Semantic MediaWiki) allows you to set attributes for articles (or sub-objects), and query on them to build results using {{#ask: but of course the ask results come with some complexities.
Some of the tips and tricks to outputting information is here:
But I have a few top things to remember:
- ?=# <- the pound says remove beautification -- just pure result... for images, or links, this is important.
- Categories will search the entire tree of sub-categories. Thus I created a flat tree, and ones with + in a parent contains subpages
- SMW by default doesn't scan the "Template" namespace. [1]
- Debug format - {{#ask: [[Category:TemplateX]]|format=debug }}
- {{PAGESINCAT:CAT_NAME }}
- {{DEFAULTSORT: Name, The }}<- fix in a page to ignore "the"
