[Mediawiki-l] how to organize wiki content

[Markus Krötzsch]

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 at 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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