Semantic MediaWiki

Abstract

Abstract. Semantic MediaWiki is an extension of MediaWiki -a widely used wiki-engine that also powers Wikipedia. Its aim is to make semantic technologies available to a broad community by smoothly integrating them with the established usage of MediaWiki. The software is already used on a number of productive installations world-wide, but the main target remains to establish "Semantic Wikipedia" as an early adopter of semantic technologies on the web. Thus usability and scalability are as important as powerful semantic features.

Multilingual Semantic MediaWiki for Finno-Ugric dictionaries

“…SMW has already been described extensively, in particular by Krötzsch and Vrandečić [3]; here we will only summarise why we chose it as a platform for our projects. SMW satisfied the following requirements:…”

Adding Semantic Extension to Wikis for Enhancing Cultural Heritage Applications

“…One of the most famous semantic wiki is Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) which is based on MediaWiki [16,9]. In 2009, when we have started the project, complex annotation and consistency checking were identified as mandatory functionalities.…”

VisiNav: A system for visual search and navigation on web data

“…Semantic MediaWiki [23] allows to embed complex queries into wiki pages, however, these queries typically represent a once-off query and do not allow for iteratively refining results. Typical linked data browsers fetch data on demand and thus lack features such as keyword search or facet selection which require query processing capabilities over the entire collected and integrated dataset.…”