Dear semantic wiki users and developers,
Save the dates! SMWCon Spring 2014 will be held at Concordia University
this year in the vibrant and culturally-fascinating city of Montréal. We
are inviting you to submit your contributions to assemble the conference
program.
This twice-yearly conference brings together researchers, users, developers
and enthusiasts of Semantic MediaWiki and related projects, such as
Wikidata. Semantic MediaWiki is a family of extensions to the open-source
wiki software MediaWiki (best known for powering Wikipedia) that allow a
wiki to store structured data in addition to textual content, thereby,
turning a wiki into a flexible, collaborative knowledge repository.
As we are putting together themes and speakers of the upcoming conference,
we welcome new contributions from you on the applications and development
of semantic wikis (for a list of topics, see below). You can propose your
contributions on the conference website in form of regular talks, posters
or super-short lightning talks. All submitted proposals will be reviewed
and we will do our best to consider your proposal in the conference
program. If you've already announced your talk it's now time to expand its
description.
Please note that all tutorials and presentations will be video and audio
recorded and made available for others after the conference.
== Important Facts ==
* Dates: May 21st to 23rd 2014 (Wednesday to Friday)
* Location: Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
* Conference wiki page:
https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business
representatives and researchers.
== List of Topics ==
Here are some suggested starting points:
Specific applications:
* Applications in science
* Applications in business
* Other applications such as culture and personal wikis
* Open data and government-supported repositories
Concepts and development:
* Evolving semantic wikis into Linked Data platforms
* Text Mining and Natural Language Processing for Semantic Wikis
* Extending via PHP, Javascript and API-based extensions
* Widgets
* Interoperability and mashups
* Community building, feature wishlists and Semantic MediaWiki's roadmap
* Improving user experience
* Helping new and experienced users contribute
* Modelling complex domains
* Access control and security aspects
* Multi-lingual and cross-lingual sites
== Organizing Committee ==
* René Witte [General Chair]
* David Mason [Program Chair]
* Bahar Sateli [Local Chair]
== Sponsors ==
Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montréal,
Canada
Please circulate as appropriate. This announcement is available at
https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014/Announcement
Hi everyone,
About a week ago, we had the (first-ever) enterprise MediaWiki hackathon in
New York City. That was something that had been discussed at least since
SMWCon last year in Berlin - although back then the plan was to have it in
Europe. Anyway, we had seven attendees altogether, and I thought it turned
out well; and if you're curious, I just wrote a blog post about it:
http://wikiworks.com/blog/2014/02/20/post-hackathon-thoughts/
-Yaron
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WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com
Good news :)
Yesterday we have published the BlueSpice (for MediaWiki) patch release 2.22.1<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluespice/files> on sourceforge.net.
We have done a lot of bugfixing and worked on the visual editor and the browser compatibility of IE 8+
On our helpdesk you will find a detailed changelog<http://help.blue-spice.org/index.php/BlueSpice_2.22.1/Changelog>.
We recommend an update for all BlueSpice installations. And for installation please use installation manual<http://help.blue-spice.org/index.php/Installation_manual> of BlueSpice 2.22.0
Have a nice weekend!
Richard
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Hi!
Slightly late, but I still want to announce the transition of
Mediawiki4Intranet to 1.21 MW branch, happened 2014-01-14 (2014-01-31
for 1.21.5).
For those who aren't familiar with Mediawiki4Intranet (most people
aren't I think :)) -- it's a MediaWiki distribution suited for corporate
(«intranet») usage. It was created just as a bundle that we use in our
company; it includes 89 extensions, patched core and some maintenance
tools and configs.
Notable features available in the basic configuration are:
* Media features: PDF, TIFF, Dia, FLV/MP4, MP3, FreeMind/FreePlane
mindmaps, LaTeX, Graphviz, Gnuplot, UMLGraph, UMLet, PlantUML; SVG
rendering of Dia, LaTeX, Graphviz, Gnuplot; JavaScript editor for
uploaded SVG files (SVGEdit);
* Wiki-anything: Wiki-blogs, Wiki-forums, Wiki-polls, Wiki-quizzes,
Wiki-presentations and even Wiki-bookmarks :)
* Built-in permission system (IntraACL);
* Versioning features: Duplicator, PageSnapshots, massively improved
import/export engine;
* Screenshort upload (SupaMW); batch file upload (SWFUpload); Sphinx
search; TikaMW for indexing binary (msword, etc) file contents;
* Editing experience: WikiEditor, wikEd, wikifikator (mainly for
russian), autocomplete for page links and templates, in-place editing of
page sections, SimpleTable;
* Optimized SemanticMediaWiki;
* Many other features and parser extensions.
Mediawiki4Intranet is a «rolling-release»; it can be installed from a
tarball or using repo.php script for updatable deployment (faster than
git submodules or composer, allows simple creation of «derived»
distributions).
Installation instructions are here:
https://github.com/mediawiki4intranet/configs and here:
http://wiki.4intra.net/Mediawiki4Intranet
Also I would appreciate any feedback and/or assistance in adding new
features to the distribution and/or help on "upstreaming" any patches,
for example the big import/export one; of course, if anyone is
interested :-).
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With best regards,
Vitaliy Filippov