Wikia

Familypedia

Random Page Wiki Activity
Watchlist Recent changes

Help:Semantic MediaWiki

Redirected from Help:SMW

The Semantic Forms and Semantic Search extensions are being made available on this wiki. The input form for individuals became fairly workable early in 2010, and searching has been available for longer. Check Forum:SMW and other forums or post a new query on the help desk about progress and use; if no response within 48 hours, try User:Phlox or User:rtol (whichever one has been most active recently).

Contents

DiscussionsEdit

DemonstrationsEdit

Technical documentationEdit

For information of interest to template writers, please consult Help:Semantic MediaWiki/technical pages.

Where is it usefully in use?Edit

Wikia sitesEdit

These Semantic extensions are currently in use on the following Wikia wikis that may be worth studying (and on a couple of dozen others as listed elsewhere):

  1. Common Sense
  2. Giki (Government Wiki) - "95,347 property values for a total of 132 different properties. 113 properties have an own page, and the intended datatype is specified for 100 of those" at last look
  3. GuildWiki
  4. Istaria
  5. Naruto
  6. Psychology
  7. Ragnarok Online 2 - "143,230 property values for a total of 55 different properties. 55 properties have an own page, and the intended datatype is specified for 55 of those" at last look
  8. Recipes
  9. Soul Eater
  10. SporeWiki
  11. The Third Turn - "547,779 property values for a total of 54,423 different properties. 14 properties have an own page, and the intended datatype is specified for 13 of those" at last look
  12. The World Ends With You
  13. Yellowikis
  14. Yu-Gi-Oh - "235,273 property values for a total of 255 different properties. 376 properties have an own page, and the intended datatype is specified for 368 of those" at last look

Non-Wikia sitesEdit

  • Historiographus - a history of science etc; "This wiki contains 3,405 property values for a total of 153 different properties. 195 properties have an own page, and the intended datatype is specified for 121 of those." (26 May 2009)
  • JewAge - Jewish genealogy site using Semantic MediaWiki; "This wiki contains 377,751 property values for a total of 96 different properties. 87 properties have an own page, and the intended datatype is specified for 86 of those." (5 Sep 2009)
  • Roux family in South Africa using Semantic Forms; "This wiki contains 6,459 property values for a total of 20 different properties. 23 properties have an own page, and the intended datatype is specified for 23 of those." (26 May 2009)


Until redirected in September 2010, the help page on Wikia Help said the following:

Template:Available on request

Semantic MediaWiki is a powerful extension that helps users to search, organise, tag, browse, evaluate, and share a wiki's content. While traditional wikis contain only text which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that allow a wiki to function as a collaborative database.

Wikia can enable Semantic MediaWiki (and related extensions Semantic Forms and Semantic Drilldown) on request for wikis which have users on hand who know how to use it, or are willing to learn and provide support for others.

The extension is very flexible, which means that it has complicated aspects which take time to master. Wikia's Community Team cannot provide support on using it, but the Semantic-MediaWiki.org wiki provides a manual, mailing list and chatroom for finding help. See also help on Semantic Search.

Where is it in use?Edit

These Semantic extensions are currently in use on the following Wikia:

  1. Age of Conan
  2. Animanga
  3. Anime
  4. Anime (Japanese)
  5. Ars curandi (Portuguese)
  6. Banjo
  7. BestBrute - MyBrute Wiki
  8. Bibliographie (German)
  9. Blogging
  10. Chaotic
  11. Cocktails
  12. Common Sense
  13. Discworld MUD
  14. Dooglegod
  15. Dungeons and Dragons
  16. The Elder Scrolls Fanon
  17. Eushully
  18. Fan Fic
  19. Genealogy - Familypedia
  20. Government Wiki - Giki
  21. Grand Theft Encyclopedia (Spanish)
  22. GuildWiki
  23. Guild Wars 2 Wiki (French)
  24. Istaria
  25. K-On!
  26. Magic: The Gathering
  27. Museums
  28. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
  29. Naruto
  30. Negima!
  31. O2Jam
  32. Our Brant - local history wiki for the County of Brant
  33. PC - Computing Knowledgebase
  34. Pirates of the Burning Sea
  35. Psychology
  36. Ragnarok Online 2
  37. Railway Wiki (Japanese)
  38. Routes - WikiSara highway information
  39. Semantic Lyrics
  40. Software
  41. Software (German)
  42. Soul Eater
  43. SporeWiki
  44. SuperWikia - superhero roleplaying
  45. The Third Turn - backbone to NASCAR site's statistical services.
  46. Warhammer Online
  47. The Webcomic Wiki
  48. Wikia Gaming
  49. The World Ends With You
  50. WoWWiki
  51. Yellowikis
  52. Yu-Gi-Oh
  53. Yu-Gi-Oh (Spanish)
  54. Yu-Gi-Oh Card Maker

It can also be tested on:

  1. SMW Test Wiki
  2. Sysop Test Wiki

See also:

  1. Sites outside Wikia (incomplete list on "Meta")


See alsoEdit

es:Ayuda:Semantic MediaWiki
This text is stored on Wikia Help. Suggest changes here.
This extension is not normally active, but may be available on request.

Semantic MediaWiki is a powerful extension which helps users to search, organize, tag, browse, evaluate, and share a wiki's content. While traditional wikis contain only text which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that allow a wiki to function as a collaborative database.

Wikia can enable Semantic MediaWiki (and related extensions Semantic Forms and Semantic Drilldown) on request for wikis which have users on hand who know how to use it, or are willing to learn and provide support for others.

The extension is very flexible, which means that it has complicated aspects which take time to master. Wikia's Community Team cannot provide support on using it, but the Semantic-MediaWiki.org wiki provides a manual, mailing list and chatroom for finding help. See also help on Semantic Search.

How does it work? Edit

Semantic MediaWiki works with attributes, which can be added to any page. Every attribute has its own kind (numerical, string, date, etc.), and second, any page can have for any attribute its own individual value (eg, a string type attribute "Name" for a page can be set with any name of your liking). So in a SMW wiki you have lots of pages, each one with its individual set of individual attributes. Now you can make queries over all these pages, or maybe over the pages of a category, and ask for all of them that have one specific attribute set, for example, all pages with a specific "year of birth" attribute ("1984"). These queries can be made on a special page or inserted into a normal wiki page. You may choose the format in which to show your query results (table, list) and also additional attributes to show for every of your results. You also can make intersecting/uniting queries (asking for multiple attributes) and ask for a whole range on an attribute. This allows for complex database queries like "all blonde male Anime characters with dead parents and short temper", as long as all these attributes are set up correctly.


Where is it in use? Edit

Here are some of the wikis where the Semantic extensions are currently in use:

  1. Age of Conan
  2. Animanga
  3. Anime
  4. Anime (Japanese)
  5. Ars curandi (Portuguese)
  6. Banjo
  7. BestBrute - MyBrute Wiki
  8. Bibliographie (German)
  9. Blogging
  10. Chaotic
  11. Cocktails
  12. Common Sense
  13. Discworld MUD
  14. Dooglegod
  15. Dungeons and Dragons
  16. The Elder Scrolls Fanon
  17. Eushully
  18. Fan Fic
  19. Genealogy - Familypedia
  20. Government Wiki - Giki
  21. Grand Theft Encyclopedia (Spanish)
  22. GuildWiki
  23. Guild Wars 2 Wiki (French)
  24. Gundam Wiki
  25. Istaria
  26. K-On!
  27. Magic: The Gathering
  28. Museums
  29. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
  30. Naruto
  31. Negima!
  32. O2Jam
  33. Our Brant - local history wiki for the County of Brant
  34. PC - Computing Knowledgebase
  35. Pirates of the Burning Sea
  36. Psychology
  37. Ragnarok Online 2
  38. Railway Wiki (Japanese)
  39. Routes - WikiSara highway information
  40. Semantic Lyrics
  41. Software
  42. Software (German)
  43. Soul Eater
  44. SporeWiki
  45. SuperWikia - superhero roleplaying
  46. Warhammer Online
  47. The Webcomic Wiki
  48. Wikia Gaming
  49. The World Ends With You
  50. WoWWiki
  51. Yellowikis
  52. Yu-Gi-Oh
  53. Yu-Gi-Oh (Spanish)
  54. Yu-Gi-Oh Card Maker
  55. Life (Lithuanian) - Gyvosios gamtos enciklopedija
  56. ArcadePT (Portuguese)

It can also be tested on:

  1. SMW Test Wiki, where the forums and other pages may contain help and/or discussion
  2. Sysop Test Wiki

See also:

  1. Sites outside Wikia (incomplete list on "Meta")

External linksEdit

Retrieved from "http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Semantic_MediaWiki"

Pages on Familypedia

Add a Page
115,649pages on
this wiki

Latest Photos

Add a Photo
30,637photos on this wiki
See more >

Recent Wiki Activity

See more >

Around Wikia's network

Random Wiki