In the press

The following list documents media coverage of the Semantic MediaWiki project. Feel free to add further items as appropriate (newest top). Note that the Semantic MediaWiki page lists technical publications about the project itself.


 * 10/2007: The November issue of the German information technology magazine iX features a four-page article on SMW and its use in knowledge management as a cover topic


 * 08/2007: Do It Award article (german): SMW got awarded the third prize in this years Do.it Award.


 * 02/2007: The German magazine managerSeminare publishes a short report on SMW, entitled "MediaWiki Reloaded," in its special issue e-le@rning.


 * 05/01/2007: Centiare, the anti-Wikipedia, is semantic. "A new wiki directory called Centiare has set itself up as the "anti-Wikipedia" that encourages contributors to take ownership of their own content in the directory, and even to monetize their editing efforts." It uses Semantic MediaWiki as one of its main selling points.


 * 13/12/2006: Semantic Wikis and Disaster Relief Operations by Soenke Ziesche at XML.com

"'The summary is to turn the universal encyclopedia into the universal database while simultaneously improving the quality of the encyclopedia. [...] I predict that Semantic MediaWiki also will be the killer application for the Semantic Web that so many have been skeptical of.'"
 * 10/12/2006: Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons and co-founder of Bitzi has written a nice post on Semantic MediaWiki, calling it the most important software project.


 * 04/12/2006: heute online, the online site of the news magazine of Germany's public broadcast ZDF, has an article on the Semantic Web and Semantic Wikipedia.


 * 02/12/2006: Deutschlandradio, a large German national radio, reports about Semantic MediaWiki at Semantics 2006. Listen to the podcast online (German).


 * 30/11/2006: Austrian national broadcast ORF has a feature on Semantic MediaWiki in the wake of the Semantics keynote, see the article in ORF's futurezone


 * 30/11/2006: The German IT newsticker Heise.de reports about a keynote on Semantic MediaWiki, given by Denny Vrandecic at Semantics 2006.


 * 17/08/2006: The German IT newsticker Heise.de reports about Semantic MediaWiki.


 * 08/2006: Harry Chen from Geospatial Semantic Web Blog explains how to learn to edit Semantic MediaWiki in 10 minutes. Thanks!

"This paper should be read by designers of volunteer or collaborative systems, and would be valuable to those studying cooperative work. Designers can find plans for implementing typed links and similar structures in a way used by others, and those curious about cooperation can judge the work required to label material compared with the benefits. The paper is straightforward and easily readable." Interessant sind deshalb Projekte wie "ontoworld", bei dem das Online Lexikon Wikipedia mit "einer Ontology unterwandert wird", wie Kohlhase das liebevoll nennt. Der Trick: Man bringe die Verfasser der Wikipedia Einträge dazu, ihre Artikel mit semantischen Zusatzinformationen in einem speziellen – maschinenlesbaren – Format anzureichern. Die semantische Verknüpfung von Artikeln ergibt eine sogenannte ontologie – ein Netz aus Sachverhalten und ihren Beziehungen zuenander, das bestimme Wissensbereiche mehr oder weniger genau abbildet- Aus diesem Netz ließe sich beispielsweise von einem KI-Programm neues Wissen ableiten, das nie explizit formuliert wurde. "'Die Möglichkeit Wikipedia mit Semantic-Web-Funktionalität auszustatten, und damit maschinenlesbar zu machen, war ein weiterer Technologie-Schwerpunkt bei der Wikimania.'" "('The possibility of extending Wikipedia with Semantic Web functionality was another technological focus of the Wikimania.'); Actually, we just gave a single talk &hellip;"
 * 03/08/2006: Michael Lesk for ACM Computing Reviews has written a review on the paper Semantic Wikipedia. He summarises:
 * 08/2006: The German edition of Technology Review writes about AI, describing SMW as an example for future AI applications:
 * 26.06.2006: Wikipedia 3.0: the End of Google? (Evolving Trends Blog)
 * 12.06.2006: ACM TechNews; Monday, June 12, 2006, an email newsletter of the ACM
 * 07.06.2006: New Scientist Tech
 * 21.05.2006: First Author
 * 19.05.2006: pressetext austria
 * 18.05.2006: Technology Review Online
 * 15.05.2006: inkBlots Blog
 * many older blogs ...
 * 10/2005: Linux Magazin (German) reports on First International Wikimedia Conference (Wikimania2005):