Semantic MediaWiki

[edit] Current participants

This list was for people who were interested in the project after Wikimania 2005. If you want to support Semantic MediaWiki now, get a login at ontoworld.org and send your comments to our mailing lists. A list of current developers is included in the version information.

Markus Krötzsch
Denny Vrandečić
Max Völkel
Heiko Haller
Hieu Nguyen
Tim Finin
Klaus Lassleben
Sudarshan P
glenn mcdonald
LoopZilla
Sam Chapman
Ed Parris
surueña
Agostino64
ChasWarner
Ingo Beyerlein
Ryan Hayes
Peter Weinstein
Christoph Graf
Dan McCreary
MovGP0
User:Lazyquasar
Creator:robotgirlfriend
skierpage
Rich Morin
Amit Parashar
Richard Morris
JesseW
Tomasz Jaśkowski
Mark Cornwell
Stephen Williams
Barcex
Jochen Gruber
Gordo
Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema
srikanth jandhyala
Pgkr
Marco Neumann
Pkchan
Guslacerda
Jeremy Zucker
Alexander Glazkov
Apokrif
Belle Ding
Jan Steinman
Joseba Abaitua
Centiare.com

[edit] News and events

• April 2007: Release of Semantic MediaWiki 0.7. Inline query templates, Enumeration type, Special:Browse page for knowledge exploring, informative listings on all pages in the namespaces Attribute, Relation, and Type. Get the code from SourceForge.

• February, March 2007: interim pre-releases of Semantic MediaWiki from SVN with features such as inline query templates, Boolean and Enumeration types, running on http://ontoworld.org.

• 12 January 2007: Semantic MediaWiki 0.6 is running on a business directory called Centiare.

• 18 November 2006: Release of Semantic MediaWiki 0.6. Improvements to inline queries including a new Special:Ask page; timeline support; improvements to RDF export; configurable "service links" for any attribute. Get the code from SourceForge.

• 16 August 2006: Semantic MediaWiki 0.5 is running on the English version of Wikible.

• 14 August 2006: Release of Semantic MediaWiki 0.5. Vocabulary reuse, e.g. FOAF; customized unit conversion and display; new datatypes for URLs, URIs, emails; improved Special pages for Attributes and Relations; cleaner PHP 5 code.

• 6 July 2006: Semantic MediaWiki 0.4.3 is running on a copy of Germany's largest city-wiki.

• 13 June 2006: Semantic MediaWiki receives the Best Poster Award for a demo given at the European Semantic Web Conference 2006 in Budva, Montenegro.

• 18 May 2006: The official WWW 2006 social wiki is running MediaWiki with the SemanticMediaWiki extension.

• 12 May 2006: Release of Semantic MediaWiki 0.4. Now, we have the inline queries inside - check them out! And much more: improved output, experimental date/time support, support for mass, exponential numbers, a type special, a more efficient storage, and more.

• 7 April 2006: Release of Semantic MediaWiki 0.3. Internationalization, OWL/RDF export, maintenance pages, support for MediaWiki 1.6, support for geographical data, and much more. Try it out yourself with the code from SourceForge.

• 15 March 2006: A preview of Semantic MediaWiki 0.3 running at ontoworld.org.

• 27 February 2006: Article about Semantic MediaWiki in the English language Wikipedia.

• 30 January 2006: SemWiki 2006 - First workshop on semantic wikis [1].

• 22 January 2006: We got a paper accepted about Semantic MediaWiki at the WWW2006.

• 4 December 2005: Release of Semantic MediaWiki 0.2. This release is now officially dubbed "alpha", because the basic architecture for most intended features is up and running at ontoworld.org.

• 17 October 2005: A new demo site (featuring the latest, still undocumented, version) has been established: ontoworld.org.

• 17 October 2005: SeMediaWiki was presented at the WikiSymposium, in the "SpeedDemos." Speed Demo section.

• 7 October 2005: Two mailing lists were established to facilitate discussion: semediawiki-user (news, user requests, testing experiences) and semediawiki-devel (technical discussion, coordination among developers). There is no easier way to keep yourself informed and make your comments be heard.

• 29 September 2005: Semantic MediaWiki extensions 0.1 were released on SourceForge. Also see the online demo kindly provided by doccheck. Please check out the implementation status for information about this demo.

• 7 September 2005: Source code project registered on SourceForge, in order to speed up development and to share first results as soon as possible. semediawiki

• 2 September 2005: Semantic MediaWiki proposed to the W3C HTML mailing list as candidate for previous-to-prime-time showcasing of the Semantic Web.

• 31 August 2005: Details on the actual implementation steps added to the implementation plan. Using an RDF triplestore should improve performance and allow for semantic extensions in a fully modular way. We currently tend towards Redland.

• 15 August 2005: The implementation plan was strongly improved. It now contains details on most features and functions that we envision for the first implementation stage. It is the result of an afternoon of intense discussion where we fought for every single requirement. We are quite happy with the outcome …

• 7 August 2005: Semantic MediaWiki portal is launched! Content based on various ideas and requirements discussed at Wikimania.

• 4–8 August 2005: Wikimania! Many inspiring discussions with Wikipedians and developers. Semantic annotation in Wikis turns out to be a hot topic.

[edit] Where we are now

[edit] Problem statement

More details about the current limitations of using data from projects like Wikipedia.

[edit] Related work

Learn about existing projects and ideas to solve the problem, and add projects you know about. A major contribution comes from the project Wikidata, but there are many other ideas to incorporate.

[edit] Background: Ontologies and the Semantic Web

An overview of "Semantic Web" technology. Find out what existing technology could be employed in our Wikis.

[edit] What we want

[edit] Overall goals

Details on what we want to achieve. And about what we do not want to do.

[edit] Requirements

Different uses introduce different requirements. Read our list and tell us what you consider important.

[edit] Envisaged applications

The world will be different with a semantic Wikipedia. Collect your ideas on what we could do with it.

[edit] How we plan to do it

Finally, we have to fix the technical details and make proposals how to actually implement the ideas. Since the task has many facets, we divide the discussion in parts such as editing syntax, export format, and required software and database modifications. For more information, read the article on implementation.

Check out our implementation status for details on the current progress and the next steps and features that are to be implemented.

[edit] Open issues, expected problems and limitations

This important section allows you to articulate your concerns and to investigate problems that need to be addressed in the current project or at later stages.

[edit] Forum

This could be a place to start discussions on subjects and take a stand on things.

[edit] Project phase

1. Initiation: gather participants and exchange viewpoints
2. Planning: agree on what to do and how to do it
3. Implementation: do it
4. Testing and evaluation: have fun