KDE's wikis getting closer to world domination with SMW and Halo - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

KDE's wikis getting closer to world domination with SMW and Halo Lydia Pintscher (@nightrose) 03.07.2010 | T ampere, Finland | Akademy 2010

What is SMW? She's not talking about ● Semantic MediaWiki me, is she? ● MediaWiki extension Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 2

What are Halo and SMW+? ● Extensions to SMW ● Make it more user friendly/usable/useful ● Add more features Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 3

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 Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 4

What are we using our wikis for? ● User documentation ● Developer documentation ● Event/sprint/meeting planning ● Release planning/management ● T ask lists ● Knowledge store ● ... Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 5

data_duplication-- Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 6

queries Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 7

maps Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 8

calendar Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 9

access control Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 10

RSS SVN web services BugZilla Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 11

Who is using it? ● Creative Commons ● UNESCO ● OLPC ● Wikia ● ... Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 12

Questions? BoF at 14:00 on Tuesday in area 1! Lydia Pintscher www.kde.org 13