On Freitag, 7. Dezember 2007, Kimon Andreou wrote:
I agree. That's why I'm anxiously awaiting the stable release of SemanticWiki ( http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki) If you're not running a production system, you may want to use the current release candidate
Yep, we are running late. I hope to get a feature-complete RC3 out before the holidays ...
Anyway a note on "finding things easily in a wiki": Many users complaining about not finding things in wikis expect some kind of miraculous wiki intelligence to find things for them. But organising stuff often also needs much work, and someone making an effort to set up initial structures and to maintain them in spite of all user attempts to mess things up again ;-)
After that, you can in principle have all kinds of search interfaces, though SMW mainly provides simple browsers, and a query language that knowledgable editors can use to pre-create queries for normal readers (by just inserting them into the wiki). But there are many more options, e.g. as Yaron Koren just did in his "Semantic Drilldown" extension [1] (which focusses on the strongly structured end of the semantic wiki spectrum, but is quite cool already [2]; especially when considering that this whole site works like a custom DB-based content management portal, but is in fact just using MediaWiki+extensions and a few well-built templates and queries; not sure whether it already supports the recent SMW-RCs).
Cheers,
Markus
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Drilldown [2] http://discoursedb.org/wiki/Special:ViewData
On 12/7/07, Hiram Clawson hiram@soe.ucsc.edu wrote:
Good Morning MW Fans:
Does anyone have any pointers to discussions of how to properly organize a wiki so that things can be found easily by users ? I'm getting the impression one needs to have special wiki pages to act as content guides to various subjects in the wiki. The category system seems to break down rapidly as categories proliferate, or articles become too numerous in a single category.
--Hiram - http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/
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