SMWCon Fall 2013/Introduction to MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki

Since this tutorial aims at teaching you something, please bring your own laptop in order to follow the lesson hands-on and to really experience collaborative data authoring first-hand. The first session will be more slide-heavy and the second session will be more DIY.

Session 1

 * MediaWiki
 * Architecture
 * Wiki pages
 * Links
 * Wiki markup
 * Namespaces
 * Templates and transclusion
 * Magic words and parser functions and parser tags


 * Hands-on: Let's create some wiki pages!


 * MediaWiki deficits and how SMW overcomes them
 * Making data explicit
 * From many manual lists to queries to the data

Session 2

 * SMW basics (20min)
 * Knowledge graph
 * Names links/Properties
 * Special pages
 * SMW mark up/annotations
 * Annotations via templates


 * Hands-on: Let's create some semantic data!


 * Retrieving Data
 * Queries
 * #ask, AQL syntax and model
 * Query formats


 * Hands-on: Let's retrieve and reuse the data!

Link List

 * The tutorial wiki:
 * https://test.wikixl.nl/wiki/smwcon1/
 * MediaWiki markup
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Parser_functions
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
 * Semantic MediaWiki
 * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:User_manual
 * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Properties_and_types#List_of_datatypes
 * http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Type_Geographic_coordinate
 * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries
 * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Selecting_pages
 * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Result_formats

Queries1

 * Michael stays in this hotel:

Queries2

 * Age


 * Height


 * Birth dates

Query 3

 * Query results via templates


 * Birth places on a map