Extension:Halo Extension
From MediaWiki.org
 Release status: beta |
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| Image:Halowiki.png | |
| Implementation | User interface, Page action, Search, Skin, Ajax
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| Description | Halo Extension is an extension to Semantic MediaWiki in order to facilitate the use of Semantic Wikis for a large community of users by creating tools that increase the ease of use of SMW features and advertise the immediate benefits of semantic content. |
| Author(s) | ontoprise.de |
| Version | 1.0 (February 2008) |
| MediaWiki | 1.12 or greater |
| Download | download from sourceforge Installation instructions |
| Example | http://halowiki.ontoprise.de |
The SMW Project Halo Extension is an extension to the Extension:Semantic MediaWiki and has been developed as a part of Project Halo in order to facilitate the use of Semantic Wikis for a large community of users. Main focus of the developments was to create tools that increase the ease of use of SMW features and advertise the immediate benefits of semantic content.
A demonstration video of the extension's main features is available at http://www.ontoprise.de/smwdemo/.
A demowiki with the Halo extension installed is available at http://halowiki.ontoprise.de.
[edit] Features of the Halo extension
The features of the Halo extension can be divided into four main sections:
- enhancing wiki navigation - features to ease and speed up navigation and access to articles, as well as semantic data, in the wiki, like an ontology browser and autocompletion
- improving knowledge authoring - features to allow easy and expressive addition of semantic data to the wiki, like a toolbar to introduce semantic markup
- simplifying knowledge retrieval - features to query knowledge and access information stored in the wiki, like a query interface and an ontology enhanced search page
- gardening the knowledgebase - features that allow users to detect inconsistencies and continuously improve the quality of the authored knowledge
- Find descriptions of each feature and its documentation on the ontoworld project page.
