Semantic Wiki usage

Why Semantic Wikis?
What is the territory of Semantic Wikis?


 * Like normal wikis, but more sophisticated, doing everything better:
 * improved navigation
 * improved presentation
 * improved search
 * personalisation
 * Making the structure declarative helps in some wiki-tasks e.g. re-factoring can benefit from having declarative underlying models/structures.
 * Different areas
 * difference between Internet and Intranet
 * difference in the size of the community
 * Interoperability (Wikis are good Web citizens but bad "intranet citizens")
 * between different Wikis
 * with other applications, particularly in corporate environments
 * Educational effects, giving users a first introduction to knowledge based systems so that they can use more sophistaced systems later (WYSIWYG -> Wikitext)

Applications

 * as a knowledge base (Wikipedia)
 * for knowledge management
 * for project management
 * for personal information management
 * information retrieval in a general sense (replacement for Google)