EMWCon Spring 2016/Mediawiki in the Enterprise

Introduction
The wiki software originally was designed as a simple solution to allow in-browser editing of websites. That is still the core functional requirement. Good for us, there are many more. And more to come.

MediaWiki was developed as soon is was recognized that the basic wiki wasn’t sufficient to maintain and operate a large structured website, such as Wikipedia. MediaWiki matured through improvements and expansions of its code, plus development of extensions on top of the native MediaWiki functionality.

MediaWiki user base gradually expanded, mainly because extensions provided unique solutions in a simple editing environment for academia, individual users, organizations and industry.

Enterprises started to implement MediaWiki:
 * Initially for low-risk solutions, e.g. for a web-based organization of primarily textual data (knowledge management)
 * Semantics opened up the possibility to process data and still offer an appealing browser interface
 * Extensions offered unique solutions for complex business requirements

By investing time, money and resources in the deployment, development and operation of wikis, enterprises have made a commitment to use MediaWiki in the years ahead, and a legitimate interest that expands the usual limited influence of the user base of open source software. That commitment can only be maintained if enterprises organize themselves as MediaWiki stakeholders.

This Enterprise MediaWiki Conference provides an attractive program for enterprise users of MediaWiki.

But that's not the first time. Over the years, since its inception in 2008, the Semantic MediaWiki Conferences (SMWCon) have addressed numerous topics that cover enterprise interest.

The questions are now: Where will this all lead to? Can enterprises unite to define a common roadmap for enterprise oriented MediaWiki solutions? Or is the roadmap of the MediaWiki Foundation sufficient? Can enterprises depend on the loosely organized community of extension developers or do they need to take a leading role? These and many other questions need to be asked and hopefully, we will come up with some answers this week.

Business Tools

 * Managing ICT infrastructure architecture knowledge (J. Schoonderbeek, Sogeti) Fall 2010
 * Semantic Page Creator: easily build social semantic web applications with SMW (Jesse Wang) Fall 2011
 * Agile Knowledge Management with SMW+(Michael Erdmann, DIQA Projektmanagement) Fall 2012
 * Cicero: Supporting collaborative decision and design processes (Klaas Dellschaft, University of Koblenz) Fall 2012
 * Collaborative Financial Analysis using Semantic MediaWiki (Benedikt Kämpgen, Tobias Zundel, AIFB) Fall 2012
 * [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013/The_User%27s_Perspective:_Customer_and_Contact_Management_with_Semantic_MediaWiki The User's Perspective: Customer and Contact Management with Semantic MediaWiki} (Michael Scherm) Fall 2013
 * Implementing Enterprise Knowledge Base - Using Semantic MediaWiki in enterprise knowledge management and case analysis (Yury Kupriyanov) Fall 2013
 * Semantic Business Process Management - BPM meets SMW (Alexander Gesinn) Fall 2013
 * Introducing Human Resource Metadata (Tom Kronenburg, PBLQ) Fall 2014
 * Modelling Clinical Pathways - Modelling Medical Processes in Semantic BPMN (Tobias Weller, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Fall 2015

Research

 * LexWiki - a collaborative authoring platform a collaborative authoring platform for large for large-scale biomedical terminologies (Mayo Clinic, NCI, WHO and Stanford University) Spring 2010
 * Neurowiki - How we integrated large datasets into SMW (William Smith, Christian Becker and Andreas Schultz) 2011
 * Docupedia - a flexible tool to tag, poll, and aggregate RSS feeds in SMW (Karsten Borgmann and Daniel Hansch) Fall 2011
 * SOFISwiki (Peter Mutschke, GESIS) Fall 2012
 * Smarter Wikis through Integrated Natural Language Processing Assistants (Bahar Sateli) Spring 2013
 * Potential analysis for hydro power using Semantic MediaWiki (Robert Ulrich) Fall 2013
 * Effective metadata management of sensor networks using SMW (Jan Willem Noteboom) Fall 2013
 * SMW for Scientific Literature Management (Bahar Sateli) Spring 2014
 * Expressing complex data in SMW: Lessons learned from building a botanical knowledge portal (Joel Sachs) Spring 2014
 * Skepticism with Scientific Wikis - The Strengths and Weaknesses (Andrew Geary, Isaac Farley) Spring 2015
 * Knowledge Management in Research (Matthias Frank, Nadia Ahmed, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik) Fall 2015

Enterprise Architecture

 * Architectural knowledge management with SMW (Remco de Boer, ArchiXL) Fall 2012
 * Modeling an Enterprise Architecture with SMW (Doug Beeson, Cogeco Cable) Spring 2013
 * Using Semantic MediaWiki in enterprise architecture (Toine Schijvenaars) Fall 2013
 * NATO's Use of SMW for Enterprise Architecture (Peter J. Woudsma) Spring 2014

Visualization

 * Dynamic wiki visualization for rapid content generation (Douglas Mason) Spring 2010
 * Maps and Semantic Maps (Jeroen De Dauw) Fall 2010
 * New features in Semantic Result Formats (MWJames, Jeroen De Dauw) Fall 2012
 * Making Complex Data Interactive with SMW (Jay Huggins ) Spring 2013
 * Collaborative Analytics: Where Groups Collaborate with Semantic Visualizations (Bernadette Clemente) Spring 2014
 * Visualisualisation of Semantic Relations (Tim Stein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Fall 2014

Integration

 * Intranet data integration using Semantic MediaWiki (Laurent Alquier, Informatics CoE) Spring 2010
 * Querying external sources using inline queries (Basil Ell) Fall 2010
 * Workflow integration - integrating with workflow/BPM engines (Joel Natividad) 2010
 * Connecting SMW to RDF Databases: Why, What, and How? (Markus Krötzsch) 2011
 * Hooking up Semantic MediaWiki with external tools via SPARQL (Samuel Lampa) Fall 2011
 * Data integration projects with SMW+ and OntoBroker (Michael Erdmann) Fall 2011
 * Porting wikis to semantic wikis (Yves Otis) Spring 2014
 * Semantic MediaWiki and Linked Open Data (Jan Willem van Veen, ArchiXL) Fall 2015

Big Data

 * Project Halo: Semantic Infrastructure and Content Discovery (Philipp Zaltenbach, Ontoprise) Spring 2010
 * Ultrapedia: An Analytical Encyclopedia (Jesse Wang, Vulcan Inc.) Spring 2010
 * NYCDataWeb (Joel Natividad) Spring 2011
 * Wikidata: Making a 'Semantic Wikipedia' a reality (Denny Vrandečić and Daniel Kinzler) Fall 2011
 * Linked Answers for Smarter Cities (Joel Natividad) Fall 2012

Frameworks

 * BlueSpice - an easy-to-use enterprise MediaWiki bundle (Markus Glaser) Fall 2012
 * Collaborative Modeling of Processes and Ontologies with MoKi (Mauro Dragoni) Fall 2013
 * SMW for business (Ad Strack van Schijndel) Fall 2013
 * Smart and professional integration of office documents (Wolfgang Fahl, ProfiWiki) Fall 2015

Farms

 * How SMW is used at BBN (Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN) Spring 2011
 * All Our SMWs and How We Manage That (Clarence Dillon & Desiree Gennaro) Spring 2011
 * Building enterprise knowledge using semantic encyclopedias (Bernadette Clemente, Cindy Cicalese, Mitre Corp) Fall 2013
 * Semantic MediaWiki Farm Infrastructure for Multi-Organizational Sharing (Cindy Cicalese) Spring 2014
 * The Why and How of Wiki Farms (Cindy Cicalese) Spring 2015

Profit

 * SMW for Fun and Profit - Thoughts on the MediaWiki and SMW consulting business (Yaron Koren) Spring 2013