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03.07.2010 | T ampere, Finland | Akademy 2010

KDE's wikis

getting closer to world domination with SMW and Halo

Lydia Pintscher (@nightrose)

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What is SMW?

• Semantic MediaWiki
• MediaWiki extension

She's not talking about me, is she?

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What are Halo and SMW+?

• Extensions to SMW
• Make it more user friendly/usable/useful
• Add more features

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Why do we need it?

• Wikis are awesome for some tasks
• We do a lot of our collaboration in our

wikis (techbase, communitybase, userbase)

• They are not as useful as they could be

in supporting our work

• Adding and using semantic annotations

will help

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What are we using our wikis for?

• User documentation
• Developer documentation
• Event/sprint/meeting planning
• Release planning/management
• T

ask lists

• Knowledge store
• ...

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data_duplication--

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queries

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maps

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calendar

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access control

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web services

SVN RSS BugZilla

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Who is using it?

• Creative Commons
• UNESCO
• OLPC
• Wikia
• ...

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Questions?

BoF at 14:00 on Tuesday in area 1!