Semantic MediaWiki

I’m very happy to announce the first release of the Ask library. The Ask library is a fresh PHP implementation of the Ask query language. This is the query language used by Semantic MediaWiki. At the Wikidata project we aim…Read more ›

August 13, 2012. The first keynote presentation of the upcoming SMWCon in Cologne (Köln), Germany (October 24-26, 2012) has been confirmed. Denny Vrandečić will present the Wikidata project of Wikimedia Deutschland. The goal of project is to create ... [More] the foundation for structured data and to make this data accessible within Wikipedia. Denny will introduce the project, show the current status and discuss possibilities for collaboration between SMW and Wikidata. For more information about the conference, see the SMWCon Fall 2012 homepage. If you plan to contribute a presentation please add yourself to the wiki page or contact the program chair Yury Katkov. If you want to register go to the ticketing site. [Less]

July 28, 2012. The registration site for the next SMWCon in Cologne (Köln), Germany (October 24-26, 2012) is available from now on. All interested participants can register at the ticketing site. For more information, see the SMWCon Fall 2012 homepage.

July 28, 2012. The registration site for the next SMWCon in Cologne (Köln), Germany (October 24-26, 2012) is available from now on. Users and developers can register at the ticketing site. For more information, see the SMWCon Fall 2012 homepage.

June 19, 2012. The location and dates of the next SMWCon, or Semantic MediaWiki Conference, have been announced: it will be held at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne (Köln), Germany on October 24-26, 2012. The first day ... [More] will include tutorials for beginners to SMW; this will be followed by a two-day regular conference. For more information, see the SMWCon Fall 2012 homepage. [Less]

April 17 2012. NYCFacets, a Semantic MediaWiki-based site that holds detailed information about the open data sets provided by New York City government agencies, won the grand prize of $10,000 at the 3rd annual NYC BigApps competition, a contest to ... [More] find software applications that use New York City's open data in creative and useful ways. NYCFacets was among the few entrants that is not a consumer application, but rather a resource for other developers. NYCFacets was created by Ontodia, a company run by longtime SMW community member Joel Natividad and Sami Baig. NYCFacets makes significant use of Semantic MediaWiki and many of its related extensions. It was previously the SMW wiki of the month in March 2012. [Less]

March 30 2012. The Wikidata project is a major effort to establish a platform for editing and sharing data among all Wikipedia communities. The project will start next Monday, 2 April 2012. Wikidata will draw from the experience of Semantic MediaWiki ... [More] in managing data in wikis, and SMW maintainers Denny Vrandecic, Jeroen De Dauw, and Markus Krötzsch are closely involved. However, there will also be some important differences, e.g., regarding user interface and translation support. Technical details are published on the Wikidata pages and there is a dedicated Wikidata mailing list for updates and discussions. Official details about the project can be found in a recent press release by Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.: Data Revolution for Wikipedia. [Less]

March 5 2012. Semantic MediaWiki 1.7.1, the next minor version after 1.7.0, has now been released. This new version adds a few cool new features and fixes a pile of bugs. Uprading from 1.7.0 can be done by replacing the files and running the database ... [More] upgrade script. Upgrading from earlier versions of SMW is easy but needs some additional steps in certain cases, see Installation 1.7.1 for details. Further information can be found on the SMW 1.7.1 page. [Less]

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February 19 2012. Semantic MediaWiki lead developer Markus Krötzsch is the author of a chapter in the new book Open Advice, a compendium of advice about free and open-source development from various open-source leaders. In his chapter, titled "Out of ... [More] the Lab, into the Wild: Growing Open Source Communities around Academic Projects", Markus talks about the steps academic researchers can take to help the open-source software that they have created succeed, including choosing popular technology, documenting the code, keeping all communication and development public, and publicizing the software. Open Advice was edited by Lydia Pintscher, a member of the Semantic MediaWiki community (as well as of the open-source software KDE), and the book's authors include others with connections to MediaWiki, including Lydia herself, Wikimedia Foundation developer Guillaume Paumier, Wikipedia researcher Felipe Ortega, and Wikitravel (and StatusNet) founder Evan Prodromou. Open Advice is itself available under an open source license. [Less]