Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis,
We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2013 - the 8th Semantic MediaWiki
Conference:
* Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2013 (Monday to Wednesday)
* Location: A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany
* Conference wikipage: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business
representatives, researchers.
SMWCon Fall 2013 will be supported by the Open Semantic Data
Association e. V. [1]. Our platinum sponsor will be WikiVote ltd,
Russia [2].
Following the success of recent SMWCons, we will have one tutorial day
and two conference days.
Participating in the conference: To help us planning, you can already
informally register on the wikipage, although a firm registration will
later be needed.
Contributing to the conference: If you want to present your work in
the conference please go to the conference wikipage and add your talk
there. To create an attractive program for the conference, we will
later ask you to give further information about your proposals.
Tutorials and presentations will be video and audio recorded and will
be made available for others after the conference.
==Among others, we encourage contributions on the following topics==
===Applications of semantic wikis===
* Semantic wikis for enterprise workflows and business intelligence
* Semantic wikis for corporate or personal knowledge management
* Exchange on business models with semantic wikis
* Lessons learned (best/worst practices) from using semantic wikis or
their extensions
* Semantic wikis in e-science, e-learning, e-health, e-government
* Semantic wikis for finding a common vocabulary among a group of people
* Semantic wikis for teaching students about the Semantic Web
* Offering incentives for users of semantic wikis
===Development of semantic wikis===
* Semantic wikis as knowledge base backends / data integration platforms
* Comparisons of semantic wiki concepts and technologies
* Community building, feature wishlists, roadmapping of Semantic MediaWiki
* Improving user experience in a semantic wiki
* Speeding up semantic wikis
* Integrations and interoperability of semantic wikis with other
applications and mashups
* Modeling of complex domains in semantic wikis, using rules, formulas etc.
* Access control and security aspects in semantic wikis
* Multilingual semantic wikis
If you have questions you can contact me (Yury Katkov, Program Chair),
Benedikt Kämpgen (General Chair) or Karsten Hoffmeyer (Local Chair)
per e-mail (Cc).
Hope to see you in Berlin
Yury Katkov, Program Chair
[1] http://www.opensemanticdata.org/
[2] http://wikivote.ru
As planned, today is the last day to submit any feedback regarding the
proposals. Please do take a moment to voice your questions, concerns, or
encouragements. You can also do so privately to either myself or Robla.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP#Proposals
Thanks!
Greg
<quote name="Greg Grossmeier" date="2013-06-24" time="11:03:15 -0700">
> The end of the community feedback period is still the same (this
> Wednesday, June 26th) to give us time to review and discuss.
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Hello all,
Due to the US holiday next week (Independence Day, July 4th) on
Thursday, we have decided to delay the RFP selection announcement by one
week. You can now expect to hear something the week of July 8th.
The end of the community feedback period is still the same (this
Wednesday, June 26th) to give us time to review and discuss.
Thank you for your understanding,
Greg
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Great use case! I've already invited the author to SMWCon conference,
hopefully he'll be able to attend and we'll have a video with further
explanation.
Honestly, it's the first time I hear about EAR and Zachman Framework.
Isn't that just an enterprise documenting system or does it have any
special features for enterprises? The description of EAR looks pretty
much like the enterprise wiki, such as TWiki or SMW+.
I also think that mediawiki-enterprise mailing list would be interested in that.
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Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Ori Livneh <ori(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> A nice post about using Semantic MediaWiki as an Enterprise Architecture
> Repository (or EAR) at the Danish National Library: <
> http://www.josefassad.com/enterprise_architecture_repository_with_semantic_…
>>
>
> The author is currently on #mediawiki (as Josef-ddb). He seems to think
> that EAR is a niche currently populated by overpriced and underpowered
> commercial behemoths, and that SMW could be competitive in this domain, but
> that people might need a bit of help to make the connection between EAR
> requirements and SMW capabilities.
>
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Hello all,
The MediaWiki release management Request for Proposals (RFP)[0] open
submission period has now ended[1], now on to the fun part, feedback!
= The Submissions =
We have two great submissions:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP/NicheWork_and_Hallo_W…!
and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP/EIJL
= Feedback / Review =
Now begins the two weeks of community feedback. Please review and leave
questions/comments on the submissions. Your feedback is what will make
this RFP process successful.
On each submission there is space at the bottom for you to ask
questions/provide feedback publicly, or you can use the Talk: page.
Addtionally: You can provide private feedback directly to either myself
or Robla (robla(a)wikimedia.org) if desired.
= Office Hours =
Next week we will have a IRC "office hour" with myself and Rob Lanphier
and the parties who submitted proposals. This is a time for
anyone/everyone to ask questions in real time from both the RFP
submitters and of us (WMF/Robla and I). This is yet to be scheduled, but
it is looking like Wednesday or Thursday (the 19th or 20th) in the
morning Pacific time (around 4 or 5pm UTC).
I will send out a note with the final date/time as soon as possible.
Thanks!
Greg
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP#Timeline
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I wanted to forward this from the general Wikimedia developers' list.
If you are particularly interested in any of the existing Request For
Comment topics on mediawiki.org then now is a good time to give your
opinion on them, on the wiki.
best,
Sumana
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] Architecture guidelines and RFCs
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 06:50:04 -0700
From: Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
Many of us met at the Amsterdam Hackathon to discuss architecture
guidelines (almost everyone with +2 in MediaWiki core, plus other
knowledgeable people), and generally about the need to have more
substantive conversations about MediaWiki architecture. It was a
really productive discussion, and had a number of outcomes:
1. RFC review: we agreed that RFCs need more diligent review. Brion
and Tim are planning to pull together the architects for regular
discussions (weekly? TBD) to at least touch all of the outstanding
RFCs, with the goal of clearing the current backlog of RFCs. If y'all
don't see substantial movement on this in a couple of weeks, please
point this out.
2. RFC use: right now, RFCs aren't used in many cases where they
should be. Assuming we get into a good flow with RFCs, we can then
reasonably expect people to actually write them when they're making
significant changes to the MediaWiki architecture.
3. Architecture guidelines: we now have a rough beginning draft of
architecture guidelines[2] we plan to use as guiding principles for
RFC review. This is a document that we plan to discuss on wiki in c2
wiki style[3]. Please participate! This is a living document, which
will be referenced in RFCs and responses to RFCs. We will use this
mailing list to discuss the more contentious issues and generally
ensure we continue to move forward refining this document.
4. A general agreement that we need to make sure that we have similar
conversations at every substantial gathering of +2 developers. For
example, we plan to figure something out for Wikimania.
We have raw notes from both days of meetings, available here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013/Architectural_princ…
Rob
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_guidelines
[3] "c2 wiki style" is with inline comments similar to the c2 Design
Patterns wiki: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DesignPatterns
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