Sites using Semantic MediaWiki / Wiki of the Month
Wiki of the Month articles
Wiki of the Month was a community initiative which ran from 2010 to 2015 to bring semantic wikis and their varied uses of Semantic MediaWiki into the spotlight. The following 61 sites have all been featured as Wiki of the Month on semantic-mediawiki.org:
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WikiApiary | gathers statistics and usage information about 5,500 MediaWiki installations with more being added each day. Tracking 1,935,719,662 edits and counting... | June 2013 |
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Yellpedia.com | is the world's first complete Geo-Social Encyclopedia/Yellow Pages. The entire United States Yellow Pages data has been uploaded via a special script to create over 10 million pages of listings. | May 2013 |
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Familypedia | is a free-to-use public website for genealogy and family history, started in 2004, hosted by Wikia. It began using Semantic MediaWiki in 2009. | January 2011 |
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Whealton Family Genealogy | is a wiki that was set up to research and share the genealogy of the Whealton family. It makes use of external vocabularies like FOAF, BIO and REL. | November 2011 |
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Verwaltungskooperation | is a German-language wiki that holds knowledge about cooperation in public administration (the meaning of "Verwaltungskooperation"). The wiki focuses mainly on documenting projects, people, institutions, literature and further resources related to such cooperation around Austria and Germany. | March 2011 |
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The Traditional Tune Archive | is a web-based information storing and retrieval tool dedicated to instrumental music of the past 300 years traditionally used for dancing in Ireland, Great Britain, and North America. It is a semantic system in which the meanings (semantics) of information are organized in a way that makes it possible for the web to "understand" and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the content. | April 2012 |
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SEQwiki | is a wiki database of tools, service providers, and tutorials for analyzing DNA data retrieved through high-throughput sequencing (HTS). It was created and is run by the community at http://seqanswers.com. | January 2012 |
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TeleWiki | is a knowledge base about business internet and telecommunications in The Netherlands | June 2015 |
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Beachapedia | captures decades of experience and knowledge gained by Surfrider Foundation activists, scientists and staff through hundreds of environmental and educational campaigns on our coasts. By sharing this resource with the public we hope to provide tools and information to help communities make a positive impact on their local beaches. | February 2012 |
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Natural History of Southeast Alaska | is a comprehensive resource about the species found in Southeast Alaska, including observational data. | November 2013 |
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Around Isle of Wight | is dedicated to bringing users the inside track on all you need to know about the Isle of Wight. | December 2012 |
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SNPedia | is a wiki investigating human genetics, that keeps track of all of the scientific literature known about each position in the human genome, otherwise known as a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism or SNP ("snip"). | September 2013 |
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LISTedTECH | is a wiki of educational technology companies and products, and the institutions that use them. | January 2015 |
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International Center For Computational Logic | is a center of teaching and research in the field of computational logic at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany | May 2015 |
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Båtwiki | (pronounced "boatwiki") is a Norwegian-language wiki dedicated to practical boating information. | January 2014 |
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EVA Wiki | is a private wiki used to support operations of the International Space Station at NASA Johnson Space Center. | August 2015 |
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Säsongsmat | is a wiki-based project focused on sharing food recipes as well as offering ecological, economical and nutritional information about the each ingredient in the recipe. | September 2011 |
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HR Metadata | is a wiki that describes the metadata of IT systems used in the HR processes of the Dutch national government. | June 2014 |
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NYCFacets | is a Smart Open Data Exchange that catalogs all the metadata for New York City (NYC) related data sources. NYCFacets exposes all the metadata in the NYC Open Data Catalog and leverages SMW's built-in searching mechanisms to improve discovery and exploration. | March 2012 |
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Funtoo Linux | is a Linux-based operating system that is a variant of Gentoo Linux. | September 2014 |
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HelioWiki | is an intranet wiki that powers the Quality Management System for Heliocentris, an energy efficiency solutions company | July 2015 |
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childrenarewelcome | is a site of child-friendly venues, mostly in the UK. | August 2014 |
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WikiParques | is a Portuguese-language wiki about the national parks and protected areas of Brazil, run by the NGO ((o))eco. | May 2014 |
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Practical Plants | is a collaboratively edited plant encyclopedia covering the subject of plants cultivated for practical purposes, with a strong bias towards organic agriculture and sustainability. | August 2013 |
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Domotiki | aims to bring together all the knowledge and information in the field of automation for including hardware, software, protocols, dealers, installers and builders. | March 2013 |
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The Plant Encyclopedia | aims to provide the most extensive and superior access to plant information globally. By having open and publicly-authored pages for every plant on Earth, The Plant Encyclopedia will build the most comprehensive horticulture canon for all of humanity's and the Earth's benefit. | June 2012 |
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NewBEE Technology Wiki | provides information on energy-efficient building refurbishment, in the context of a European research project. | April 2015 |
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CiteEvidence | is a wiki for recording assertions that serves as a back-end database for fact-checking tools. | July 2014 |
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Tethys | facilitates the creation, annotation, and exchange of information on the environmental effects of Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) and Offshore Wind (OSW) technology. | April 2013 |
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BASAbaliWiki | is a Balinese-English-Indonesian reference dictionary wiki. | February 2015 |
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Graz Wiki | is a wiki that attempts to document the unique architectural heritage of the city of Graz, the second largest city in Austria. The project is part of the Graz initiative "SOKO Altstadt" ("old town social cooperative"), which aims to preserve the city's architectural landmarks. | July 2012 |
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Our Brant | is a local-history wiki created by the County of Brant Public Library, meant to allow local residents, including historians and genealogists, to collaborate on historical information about the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. Our Brant is hosted on Wikia. | February 2011 |
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Food Finds | is a wiki devoted to finding the best places to eat all over the world, from restaurants and cafes to markets, street stalls and food carts. | December 2011 |
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WikiDeb | is a collaborative website that provides information on the proposals and statements in debate, maps the opinions and positions of multiple actors, and identifies discussions on a theme or actor. | February 2013 |
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Wiki Law School | is a knowledge base about law schools in the United States also providing outlines for every legal topic covered by them. It was primarily developed for law students, but it can also be helpful to anyone who is interested in learning about the law. | September 2012 |
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World Directory of Churches | is a wiki dedicated to cataloging every Christian church on the planet, regardless of language, size, creed, or denomination. | February 2014 |
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Dropedia | is a wiki that allows scientists and others to catalog and analyze information about water scarcity in the Lower Jordan Valley. | October 2014 |
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Biodiversity of India | is a wiki run under the umbrella of Project Brahma, a not-for-profit initiative aimed at creating awareness about biodiversity conservation and the domino effects of species loss in India and across the world. Project Brahma aims to create such awareness by increasing participation of the people in biodiversity documentation and conservation. | May 2012 |
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Free Software Directory | is a catalog of useful free software that can run on free operating systems, hosted and maintained by the Free Software Foundation. | December 2013 |
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RopeWiki | is a wiki containing information about technical, rope-based outdoor recreation, particularly canyoneering. | March 2015 |
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One Laptop per Child | focuses on children's education, access to networks of collaboration, and access to knowledge in every region, in the local language, and for every age range and subject matter. One Laptop per Child spreads the power of education by equipping children in rural parts of developing countries with connected laptops. | November 2012 |
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The Aquarium Wiki | is a collaborative location to find and share information related to aquarium life, as well as reviews of products, companies, and clubs listings across the world. | October 2012 |
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BASESwiki - Business and Society Exploring Solutions | is an initiative of the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, undertaken in cooperation with the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. The core mission of BASESwiki is to improve access to, and the development of, rights-compatible mechanisms for addressing grievances between companies and the communities in which they operate. | December 2010 |
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NewBEE Technology Wiki | provides information on energy-efficient building refurbishment, in the context of a European research project. | April 2015 |
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ShoppingTomorrow | supports Dutch retail experts in the creation of a book on e-commerce and in sharing knowledge and best practices on retail and e-commerce. | November 2014 |
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AIFB Web Portal | of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology uses SMW to turn a wiki into a powerful content management system. A carefully crafted look, bilingual content management, and the artful use of forms and queries all combine into an inspiring demonstration of how semantic wikis can go beyond traditional applications. | November 2010 |
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SporeWiki | is a wiki for the community of players and fans of the 2008 video game Spore. | October 2013 |
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International Center For Computational Logic | is a center of teaching and research in the field of computational logic at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany | May 2015 |
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KnowIt | is an internal wiki run within Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development to manage information about the technology, people and data within the organization. It is also gaining use as a general data store for the parent company, Johnson & Johnson. | August 2011 |
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OpenEI.org | or Open Energy Information, is a website sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, that uses Semantic MediaWiki to enable widespread sharing of energy information, including data, tools, models, and other digital resources. It was launched in November 2009, and contains over 40,000 pages and over 1 million property values. | May 2011 |
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SKYbrary | is a single point of reference for aviation safety knowledge, run by the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL). | April 2014 |
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SaveMLAK | is a wiki that holds information about museums, libraries, archives and kominkan (community centers) (MLAK) in Japan that were damaged by the March 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. It is part of a larger project that attempts to coordinate the recovery of these facilities. | June 2011 |
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honestcollars | is a startup from India that provides listings and reviews for workers from the blue collar sector. | December 2014 |
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AcaWiki | is a wiki designed to collect summaries and literature reviews of peer-reviewed academic research, and make them available to the general public. It summarizes academic papers from economics, psychology, sociology, business and computer science, among other fields. | July 2011 |
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LibrePlanet | is a wiki used to organize local free software advocacy groups as well as general free software efforts, run by the Free Software Foundation. | March 2014 |
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OGD Cockpit | is a demonstration site meant to showcase the potential of Semantic MediaWiki in supporting a collaborative effort of interactively putting together a data catalog inside public administrations. | July 2013 |
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ParentVoice | is a Hampshire, England-wide network of parents and carers of children and young people with additional needs aged 0-19. Parent Voice provides local information and advice, newsletters and a comprehensive events calendar. | August 2012 |
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CSA Central | is an internal site that was created to help address this issue by fostering better networking and information sharing between the various groups and individuals that comprise the Computational & Statistical Analytics (CSA) division at PNNL. | October 2011 |
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Triple A | is a site that provides IT architecture information for educational organizations. It supports MBO-scholen (Dutch secondary schools) wanting to innovate educational processes. | January 2013 |
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Gardenology.org | is a "complete plant and garden wiki encyclopedia", that holds nearly 20,000 articles relating to plants, including plant cultivation, propagation and maintenance. It was launched in 2007, and has been using Semantic MediaWiki since 2009. | April 2011 |
