[Mediawiki-l] First release candidate for SMW 1.0 available

Markus Krötzsch mak at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Sat Oct 13 19:42:13 UTC 2007


Hi all,

Semantic MediaWiki 1.0 RC1 is now available for download [1]. While this is 
not the final 1.0 release yet, it already should provide many improvements 
over SMW0.7, and especially is the recommended version for new installations 
(upgrading also works well, but do read the INSTALL carefully). MediaWiki 
1.10 or greater is basically all that is required.

We intend SMW1.0 final to include a couple of further non-critical bugfixes, 
and also some added features. The online documentation and translations also 
need some further updates (translators: now is a good time to look at the new 
messages; languages in need include Es, Fr, He, Nl, Pl, Ru, Sk). A general 
list of added features in RC1 is included below.

Enjoy,

Markus

[1] http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=147937



== Features added in SMW 1.0 RC1 ==

* Simplified semantic annotations: just one kind of annotation ("Property").
* Significant speedup (both server and network load substantially reduced).
* Prettier and easier to understand interfaces:
  ** New tooltips that work on both normal and special pages.
  ** Simplified factbox layout, with all properties in alphabetic order.
  ** Inline warnings to simplify trouble shooting with annotations.
  ** Improved, more helpful and informative warning and error messages.
  ** Highlighting for built-in elements. E.g. built-in types are visually
     distinguished from arbitrary types; useful as visual feedback.
  ** Error/warning reporting for (inline) queries.
* Alias strings for all SMW elements. English labels are allowed in all
  languages, names of old SMW elements still work as aliases for their
  replacements.
* More expressivity for semantic querying:
  ** support for subproperties,
  ** improved equality resolution (redirects),
  ** support for disjunctions,
  ** inequality check for datavalues ("[[property::!value]]")
* New/improved datatypes:
  ** Type:Page for explicitly specifying properties that are "relations"
  ** Type:Number as universal replacement for Type:Integer and Type:Float
  ** Type:URL as universal replacement for old Type:URL and Type:URI
  ** Type:Geographic coordinates completely rewritten. More input formats
     supported now (e.g. coordinates without "," separating Lat and Long)
  ** special property "allows value" works for all types
  ** display units are now easier to select via property "display units"
  ** Improved data display: linked URLs and tooltips work for queries and 
     special pages
* Improved maintenance special pages:
  ** Hints and warning for property usage/declaration in Special:Properties
  ** Extra information and warnings for types on Special:Types
  ** Special:SemanticStatistics as faster replacement for 
earlier "ExtendedStatistics"
* New experimental n-ary properties, allowing property values to consist of
  a list of entries.
* Ontology import re-enabled (simple annotation import)
* Dutch translation added (by Siebrand Mazeland)
* Improved APIs and various new hooks to simplify the life of SMW extension 
developers.
* Many bugfixes.


-- 
Markus Krötzsch
Institut AIFB, Universät Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe
phone +49 (0)721 608 7362        fax +49 (0)721 608 5998
mak at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de        www  http://korrekt.org
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