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Semantic MediaWiki is one of the largest, and most complex extensions to MediaWiki - and also an indespensible one for enterprise use. The features it provides are partly described on the Metadata page.

This page exists to dive deeper into particulars.

SMWCon 2023

The 3-day program was fantastic!

One major advancement was the fact that Bernard Krabina opened ties with Open Collective so that individuals and organizations can donate money to the project.

Task tracking

HalloWelt! combines four extensions they created to make useful task tracking in (Semantic) MediaWiki

Miriam Schlindwein presented how it's possible to create tasks, assign them to someone, add due dates and how they can be controlled

Realtime integrations with GitLab

See GitLab operations

Fixing Wikidata

Yaron Koren gave a great presentation (slides) called Enhanced Wikibase on how Wikibase (and therefore Wikidata) are missing features. He showed how he implemented these missing features in a series of developments. One is showcased at Wikidata Walkabout - a drill-down and query interface to Wikibase sites; powered by Anvesha - a JavaScript library.

Natural Language Queries to Wikidata: A Naive Prototype

Robert Timms - Sr. Software Engineer Wikibase Suite, Wikimedia Deutschland gave a talk (code slides try it) about querying Wikibase with an LLM. Slides 9-22 go from the application architecture to the 'tada' moment.


Not the goal of the talk, but he revealed some of the key drawbacks of using "AI" in the first place:

  1. Application architecture
    architecture
    Outdated information
  2. Prone to hallucinations
  3. No sources (AI doesn't tell you how or why it claims to be authoritative.)

This is supposed to be addressed in part by using the RAG technique.