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 there is also a page for scientific publications that involve Semantic MediaWiki.


 * 26/08/2013: (magazine article) c’t publishes Organising knowledge with Semantic MediaWiki by Robert Seetzen, Issue 19/2013, p. 158-162


 * 03/12/2012: (online article) Heise informs about the new SMW 1.8.0 release and its new features by Robert Seetzen.


 * 30/03/2012: (blog post) "Techies Team Up to Make Wikipedia Smarter", Wall Street Journal "Digits" blog - part of a wave of articles about the Wikidata project right before its launch, though this and most other articles didn't mention SMW directly.


 * 26/10/2011: (online article) Heise writes about a semantic Wikipedia and the "Wikidata" project.


 * 09/04/2011: (blog post) Wikimedia Foundation operations engineer Ryan Lane wrote about using Semantic MediaWiki to help manage the WMF's servers.


 * 15/01/2011: (radio) Interview with Markus Krötzsch about Semantic MediaWiki on the German national radio program Deutschlandradio Kultur (starts at 4:00 minutes; in German).


 * 10/01/2011: (newspaper article) Article about a machine-readable Wikipedia at Die Zeit


 * 26/10/2010: (online article) "Energy data in action" by Alex Howard, O'Reilly Radar, about SMW in use on OpenEI.


 * 07/07/2010: (online article) "Wikipedia to Add Meaning to Its Pages by Tom Simonite, Technology Review.


 * 12/2008: (magazine article) The December issue of iX had an article about wiki engines that included Semantic MediaWiki.


 * 16/05/2008: (blog post) "The mashable wiki", blog post by technology advisor Susan Crawford about SMW and the "Cause Caller" wiki.


 * 01/12/2008: (online article) Article about SMW-based wiki farm Referata by Jennifer Zaino, semanticweb.com.


 * 11/2007: (magazine article) The November issue of the German information technology magazine iX featured a four-page article on SMW and its use in knowledge management as a cover topic.


 * 08/2007: (press release) Do It Award article (german): SMW awarded third prize in this year's Do.it Award.


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


 * 13/12/2006: (online article) "Semantic Wikis and Disaster Relief Operations" by Soenke Ziesche at XML.com.


 * 10/12/2006: (blog post) Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons predicts that Semantic MediaWiki will be "the killer application for the Semantic Web".


 * 04/12/2006: (online article) 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: (radio) Deutschlandradio, a large German national radio station, reports about Semantic MediaWiki at Semantics 2006. Listen to the podcast online (German).


 * 30/11/2006: (online article) Austrian national broadcast ORF has a feature on Semantic MediaWiki in the wake of the Semantics 2006 keynote.


 * 30/11/2006: (online article) Heise reports about a keynote on Semantic MediaWiki, given by Denny Vrandecic at Semantics 2006.


 * 17/08/2006: (online article) The German IT newsticker Heise reports about Semantic MediaWiki.


 * 03/08/2006: (journal article) Michael Lesk for ACM Computing Reviews has written a review on the paper "Semantic Wikipedia".


 * 08/2006: The German edition of Technology Review writes about artifical intelligence, describing SMW as an example for future AI applications.


 * 26/06/2006: (blog post) Wikipedia 3.0: the End of Google? (Evolving Trends Blog)


 * 12/06/2006: (email newsletter) ACM TechNews; Monday, June 12, 2006, an email newsletter of the ACM


 * 07/06/2006: (online article) "Software could add meaning to 'wiki' links", New Scientist Tech


 * 19/05/2006: (online article) "Tuning für die Wikipedia", pressetext austria


 * 18/05/2006: (online article) Technology Review Online


 * 10/2005: (magazine article) Linux Magazin (German) reports from Wikimania 2005, and describes the original Semantic MediaWiki talk.