This usually requires some form of "semantic annotation," but the special Wiki environment and the multitude of envisaged applications impose a number of additional requirements.

[122][123] Semantic MediaWiki is one such extension. MediaWiki was released in 2003.

[98] As of March 2012, it has been done through Gerrit. We try to be very verbose, to enable you to join the discussion.

For instance, the ability to move a page or add it to one's watchlist is usually restricted to logged-in users.

The second user is then given an opportunity to merge their content into the page as it now exists following the first user's page save. A sample NGINX configuration for MediaWiki. SMW allows users to add structured data to wiki pages through simple wikitext markup that identifies relations between pages and attribute values of pages. The overall objective of the project is to develop a single solution for semantic annotation that fits the needs of most Wikimedia projects and still meets the Wiki-specific requirements of usability and performance. MediaWiki is free software licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

The software was then, gradually, deployed on all the Wikipedia language sites of that time. 7 August 2005: Semantic MediaWiki portal is launched!

Most extensions can be download from Wikimedia's Subversion repository. The solution developed by this project is a single extension to the MediaWiki software, also named Semantic MediaWiki. If your MediaWiki installation is heavily modified, it may be difficult to incorporate the latest official changes/updates to MediaWiki. [25], The product logo was created by Erik Möller, using a flower photograph taken by Florence Nibart-Devouard, and was originally submitted to the logo contest for a new Wikipedia logo, held in from July 20 to August 27, 2003. If you support these ideas or want to participate in the discussion, you might want to enter your login in the list of participants below.

The simplest way, available to all users, is simply to blank the page. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. There was a desire to have it implemented immediately on the English-language Wikipedia,[22] however, Manske was apprehensive about any potential bugs harming the nascent website during the period of the final exams he had to complete immediately prior to Christmas;[23] this led to the launch on the English-language Wikipedia being delayed until January 25, 2002. Download installers and virtual machines, or run your own mediawiki server in the cloud. It was developed for use on Wikipedia in 2002, and given the name "MediaWiki" in 2003.

31 December 2007: Release of Semantic MediaWiki 1.0, featuring significant speedups, more expressive querying, new translations, unified semantics under the term "Property", simpler datatypes, and several other features. Other public wikis that run on MediaWiki include wikiHow and SNPedia. Agostino64

Although both platforms allow discussion and tracking of progress, TWiki has a "Report" part that MediaWiki lacks. Heiko Haller The name has frequently caused confusion due to its (intentional) similarity to the "Wikimedia" name (which itself is similar to "Wikipedia").

The specific tabs displayed depend on whether or not the user is logged into the wiki and whether the user has sysop privileges on the wiki. Can't figure out how to show a link with words; it inserts a number."[52].

Gordo This list was for people who were interested in the project after Wikimania 2005.

There are also paid programmers who primarily develop projects for the Wikimedia Foundation.