Help:SMW Project
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an open-source project to which many people and organisations have contributed. The SMW project was founded by Markus Krötzsch and Denny Vrandecic during their work at the Institute AIFB at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) The current project maintainers are Markus Krötzsch and Jeroen De Dauw. Information on how to get in touch with the SMW project is found at the SMW contact page.
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Project history
Semantic MediaWiki was first released on 30 September 2005. You can read the entire version history of SMW at SMW History.
Contributors
Development
- Core developers:
- Markus Krötzsch, Jeroen De Dauw, Yaron Koren,
- Denny Vrandecic (past), Klaus Lassleben (past, funded by DocCheck GmbH)
- Code contributors:
- S Page, Kai Hüner, Fernando Correia, Nick Grandy, Thomas Bleher, Felix Kratzer,
- Jörg Heizmann, Daniel Herzig, Nikolas Iwan, Tobias Matzner, Daniel Friesen, Frank Dengler,
- Nathan R. Yergler, Fabian Howahl, Jie Bao, Marcel Gsteiger, Joel Natividad, Richard Cyganiak,
- and many more
- Interface translation:
- Community of translatewiki.net, special thanks are due to Siebrand Mazeland, Niklas Laxström and the other staff members of translatewiki.net
- Original concept:
- Heiko Haller, Markus Krötzsch, Max Völkel, Denny Vrandecic
- Extension developers: see extensions page
Website and Documentation
- Editor in chief:
- Editor, Wiki of the Month:
- Desiree Gennaro, Yaron Koren (past)
- Chief translators:
- Jan Schoonderbeek (Dutch - Nederlands)
- Karsten Hoffmeyer (German - Deutsch)
- Kazuhiro Kawaguchi (Japanese - 日本語)
- LIMAFOX76 (French - Français)
- Linforest (Simplified Chinese - 中文(简体))
- Yury Katkov (Russian - Русский)
- Documentation authors: view list
- Webserver administration:
- Hans Marcus Krueger
Community Support
- Mailing list moderators:
- Kelly Bowles, Jude Jonassaint, Scott Reed, Yaron Koren,
- Dan Bolser (past), Patrick Nagel (past)
- Mailing lists:
- >500 subscribers of the user mailing list (Jan 2012)
- OSDA Steering Committee:
Artwork
- SMW logo design:
- Markus Krötzsch (Wikipedia link ball, semantic flower),
- Rozana Vrandecic (second generation link ball)
Projects and organisations supporting SMW
The Open Semantic Data Association, which has existed since August 2011, provides some financial and logistical support for Semantic MediaWiki, although it is not involved in coordinating the software's development.
Semantic MediaWiki core development is also funded in part by the Institut AIFB of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.
Specific development tasks have been carried out in a number of research and industry-based projects:
- European Union projects partly supporting further development of SMW include:
- DocCheck GmbH supported the first prototype development.
- HP Labs Palo Alto
- Milprog AG, Switzerland
- Ontoprise GmbH has supported SMW in the context of the Halo project, funded by Vulcan Inc.
- WikiWorks has developed, and maintains, a number of SMW-based extensions
Credits to other software projects
- Naturally, Semantic MediaWiki is part of the MediaWiki project. Technical infrastructure and development support for MediaWiki is provided by the Wikimedia Foundation and a very large number of contributors and supporters.
- Semantic MediaWiki uses the jQuery and jQuery UI Javascript libraries, which are included within MediaWiki.
- Many people have contributed to the project by providing helpful comments and suggestions. Among them are many people on the project mailing lists, and, previously, the members of the Semantic Wiki Interest Group and a number of anonymous reviewers. Thanks a lot!
