Hi all,
we are happy to announce that the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) extension has won the third prize of this year's "doit-software-awards" (http://www.doit-award.de German homepage). This annual award is granted by the German state of Baden-Württemberg and MFG foundation as a support for innovative software solutions that carry scientific developments into practice. It is also coupled with some prize money that our research group at Institute AIFB in Karlsruhe receives.
As usual, competition for this well-established award was tough and we are very happy that SMW was successful. Thanks are due to many people who continuously contribute code, translations, and advice to the project. The active user base quite certainly also played a role in the assessment of the jury. And of course we completely rely on the great work of the MW core development team. Thank you!
Of course this fuels our motivation for further developments, and we are currently very busy with designing and implementing "SMW 1.0" as well as with making plans for the long-term future of the project.
Cheers,
Markus
P.S. Using SMW from SVN remains somewhat risky. Stay tuned until August for a new stable version.
On 7/6/07, Markus Krötzsch mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
we are happy to announce that the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) extension has won the third prize of this year's "doit-software-awards"
Congratulations! :-) SMW is an excellent extension and I'm glad your hard work is being honored.
On 7/6/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 7/6/07, Markus Krötzsch mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
we are happy to announce that the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) extension has won the third prize of this year's "doit-software-awards"
Congratulations! :-) SMW is an excellent extension and I'm glad your hard work is being honored.
Maybe we could start honoring it by running it at *.wikipedia.org *hint* *hint*
Mathias
On Friday 06 July 2007 20:26, Mathias Schindler wrote:
On 7/6/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 7/6/07, Markus Krötzsch mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
we are happy to announce that the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) extension has won the third prize of this year's "doit-software-awards"
Congratulations! :-) SMW is an excellent extension and I'm glad your hard work is being honored.
Maybe we could start honoring it by running it at *.wikipedia.org *hint* *hint*
Well, we are always open for discussions ;-) After a lot of recent rewriting we should be close to a simpler and more beautiful SMW1.0 around Wikimania next month. Looking forward to see you there for some demos!
Markus
Mathias
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Well, we are always open for discussions ;-) After a lot of recent
rewriting
we should be close to a simpler and more beautiful SMW1.0 around Wikimania next month. Looking forward to see you there for some demos!
Oh please, oh please, oh PLEASE let there be a paser-function for {{#ask}} in the upcoming release. Please?
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 7/7/07, Markus Krötzsch mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
On Friday 06 July 2007 20:26, Mathias Schindler wrote:
On 7/6/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 7/6/07, Markus Krötzsch mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
we are happy to announce that the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) extension has won the third prize of this year's "doit-software-awards"
Congratulations! :-) SMW is an excellent extension and I'm glad your hard work is being honored.
Maybe we could start honoring it by running it at *.wikipedia.org *hint* *hint*
Well, we are always open for discussions ;-) After a lot of recent rewriting we should be close to a simpler and more beautiful SMW1.0 around Wikimania next month. Looking forward to see you there for some demos!
Markus
Mathias
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