User:Dave/Admin Notes

link lists

Below are lists of resources I'm keeping track of.

upgrading

Manual:Upgrading

(Run update.php.)

mediawiki

Semantic Wiki Trending Topics

smw / smw+

manuals

SMW quick reference
Help:Interwiki linking
Category:Interwiki variables
Manual:Contents - A technical manual for the MediaWiki software. Contains information for developers and system administrators on installing, managing and developing for the MediaWiki software.
Help:Contents (MediaWiki Handbook)
Help:Magic words

extensions

Listed below are installed or to-install extensions.

to install

Semantic Bundle

(Redundancy Alert: I forgot that I could've actually installed Semantic MediaWiki as part of this bundle.)

installed

See Special:Version

Semantic Wiki: Phpwiki, Freebase, Semantic Mediawiki, Tikiwiki, Bowiki, Smw+, Ontowiki, Wagn

reading material

discussion lists

Semediawiki-user (Semantic MediaWiki user mailing list.)

Merge the links below with those shown above.

Multihomed, Multidomain Collaboration

FROM SITE: A platform to enable real-time environmental experiments through wireless sensor networks and a common, modern, generic cyber-infrastructure. This infrastructure will be used to enable interdisciplinary environmental research, allowing scientists to work efficiently and collaboratively to find the key mechanisms in the triggering of natural hazards and to efficiently distribute the information to increase public awareness.

DAVE'S NOTES: This site is a good model for explaining how multiple and dispersed nodes (people / domains / data points) can collaborate effectively.

EXAMPLE: Wannengrat Deployment/Fieldsite

Semantic MediaWiki

Semantic Toolbar, allowing to quickly inspect, create and alter the semantic annotations of a wiki article

Advanced Annotation Mode, for annotating contents semantically in a WYSIWYG-like manner without having to cope with the wiki source text

Auto-completion, suggesting entities or data existing in the wiki while typing (e.g. when annotating in the wiki-text or filling in input fields)

Graphical query interface, empowering users to easily compose queries and preview query results with different output formats

Ontology browser, enabling intuitive browsing and changing of the wiki's ontology and lookup of instance and property information

A recurring event is any event that occurs more than once, according to a pre-defined rule: examples are weekly meetings, anniversaries and birthdays.

Data Import / Export / Exchange

WikiDB

WikiDB/Tutorial

Extension:Data Import Extension

An extension to Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) and the Halo Extension.: Developed as a part of Project Halo to embrace data provided by external applications and to re-use the data in a wiki.
The Data Import Extension enables users to integrate external data into the Wiki in two different ways.

First the Web Service component allows to retrieve data from external RESTful and basic SOAP web services from within the Wiki.
Second the Term Import Framework component allows to import data into the Wiki as new articles.

At the moment it supports web services, CSV files and POP3 (emails) as sources for import.; All features come with easy to use graphical user interfaces.
Features

Using data and features from web services - features to attach to an external RESTful or basic SOAP web service, to specify the update and cache cleanup policies and to generate semantic annotations from read or imported data
Importing new Wiki articles - Companies that want to introduce a semantic wiki as new knowledge managements system often have their own vocabulary of specific terms that they want to be reflected in the Wiki. The Term Import component allows importing such existing terms into the wiki.

Extension:IncludeArticle

Example: To get the first 200 letters from a random article in the MAIN NAMESPACE

<IncArticle>{{{content}}}</IncArticle>

To get the first 300 letters from a random article:

<IncArticle count="300">{{{content}}}</IncArticle>

To define your own format for the generated article, you can use your own style.

<IncArticle count="300">
== {{{titleblank}}} ==
{{{content}}}
</IncArticle>

Extension:StarterWiki

StarterWiki provides a set of maintenance scripts and functions to allow for creation of wiki databases based off a starter wiki.

Tabular Data

Extension:TableEdit

Dave's Notes: This extension will probably be too buggy to use, but look for something similar.

ALSO CHECK OUT: DataTables (A jQuery library that looks like it can be used as a stand-alone or in conjunction with Extension:TableEdit. Looks very useful!)

Data Visualization

SwarmExport

SwarmExport allows for export of a wiki's history in a format that can be used by code_swarm to make a visualization of the wiki's timeline.

VISUAL EXAMPLE code_swarm - An experiment in organic software visualization.

FlowchartWiki - Wiki-based Process Modelling and Documentation (The external wiki for the FlowchartWiki extension developer.)

Extension:Storyboard

Storyboard is an extension developed for the Wikimedia Foundations fundraising efforts. It allows users to submit stories and can display these in an ajaxscroll board that can be embedded in wiki articles. The stories can be managed via a story review interface and be viewed and edited individually on a special story page.

Data Extraction

This is really cool: Extension:SparqlExtension#Charts

More here: User:Alfredas/Charts

(Compare with Extension:LinkedWiki.)

Interact With External Data

Extension:WikiSync

This extension allows an AJAX-based synchronization of revisions and files between global wiki site and it's local mirror. Files download can optionally be disabled, to speed up the synchronization. The process is partially automated, and progress indicator is displayed during time-consuming operations. Both global site and local mirror can be used either as source or destination for synchronization, although currently synchronization of files is implemented only from global site to local mirror (synchronization of revisions works in both sides).