Extension:Semantic MediaWiki

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Semantic MediaWiki Release status: stable
Implementation	Link markup, Tag, Extended syntax, Search, Special page
Description	SMW allows users to add structured data to wiki pages through simple wikitext markup that turns links to other pages and data values in a page into meaningful properties. With this information, SMW helps to search, organize, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content.
Author(s)	Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandecic, Jeroen De Dauw and others
Last version	1.8.0.5 (2013-05-17)
MediaWiki	1.17+ (1.19+ recommended)
Database changes	yes
License	GPLv2
Download	from SourceForge Download snapshot (Git master) Git [?]: repo summary tree code changes README
Example	Berlin page on semantic-mediawiki.org
Parameters see here on semantic-mediawiki.org
Hooks used ParserTestTables InternalParseBeforeLinks ArticleDelete TitleMoveComplete LinksUpdateConstructed ParserAfterTidy NewRevisionFromEditComplete OutputPageParserOutput ArticleFromTitle ParserFirstCallInit SkinTemplateToolboxEnd SkinAfterContent AdminLinks ExtensionTypes
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Bugs: list open list all report

Semantic MediaWiki is an extension for managing structured data in your wiki and for querying that data to create dynamic representations: tables, timelines, maps, lists, etc. The actual homepage of Semantic MediaWiki, including user documentation in multiple languages, is semantic-mediawiki.org. There are various other pages in the MediaWiki and Wikipedia space related to SMW, but the homepage is the most up-to-date source of information.

There are a large number of "spinoff" extensions that require the presence of Semantic MediaWiki; see the category Semantic MediaWiki extensions for the full list (some of these extensions are obsolete).

Please refer to the download page on semantic-mediawiki.org for information on how to obtain this extension. It is not advised to use the extension distributor of mediawiki.org for this purpose.

Installation

The instructions are located on the help page about the installation.

External links

• Semantic MediaWiki homepage
• Semantic MediaWiki article on Wikipedia
• Historical Semantic MediaWiki documents on meta.wikimedia, describing the genesis of the project and its early design
• The Semantic MediaWiki Community Wiki, which features its own list of sites that use SMW, filterable by language, data type, etc.

See also

• Wikidata - a project to get similar functionality onto Wikipedia
• Semantic Bundle - a bundle of SMW-related extensions

Similar extensions

• Extension:Wikibase+ Extension:DataValues + Extension:ValueParsers + Extension:ValueFormatters + Extension:ValueValidators (extensions used by Wikidata project to represent and manipulate with structured data)
• Extension:Data (a similar extension)
• Extension:DynamicPageList (can extract data from articles, especially template variables, current version)
• Extension:WikiDB (provides database features, somewhat similar to semantic properties)
• Extension:Infobox Data Capture (Captures key-value pairs, simpler but less functional)