Help:Display title

The display (output) characteristics of a page's title can be altered through various means in MediaWiki including:

• Add {{DISPLAYTITLE:Bar}} to page Foo to display Bar instead of the "real" title Foo
• Employ a template to alter the output as part of a query request

Using the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic word on a page shows the intention to alter its display characteristics which by default (as of Semantic MediaWiki 2.4.0Released on 9 July 2016 and compatible with MW 1.19.0 - 1.27.x.1) is transferred and interpreted as preferred caption for those entities that make use of it.

A page that contains a annotation using the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic word will automatically set special property "Display title of"Holds a specific denote title for an entity and indicates to all Semantic MediaWiki processes (special page "Browse"Shows all properties and their values annotated to a page, query results etc.) to prefer it over the real title (it also includes setting the {{DEFAULTSORTKEY}} magic word, if no other key is defined).

Configuration parameters

• Manual page on configuration parameter "$wgAllowDisplayTitle" - Allows use of {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic word.
• Manual page on configuration parameter "$wgRestrictDisplayTitle" - Allows to restrict {{DISPLAYTITLE}} to titles that normalize to the same canonical database key.
• Help page on configuration parameter $smwgDVFeaturesSets the available features regarding property data values - Sets the available features regarding property data values including SMW_DV_WPV_DTITLE

Examples

• sandbox:GBIFID:2706490 is stored with an external ID (i.e. GBIFID:2706490) but to appeal to a user in a more human readable form it is identifiable as Agrostis capillaris L. instead of the GBIFID:2706490 ID.
• sandbox:EventsUsingDisplayTitle

See also

• Help page on special property "Display title of"Holds a specific denote title for an entity
• Documentation page on extension "Semantic Title"Sets visible page title to value of a semantic property
• Documentation page on extension "Display Title"
• Help page on magic word {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
• Help page on sorting