Semantic MediaWiki
Unlock the potential of your wiki with Semantic MediaWiki (SMW). Enable structured data, build complex queries, and create a seamless knowledge management experience.
Professional Semantic MediaWiki Services
Semantic MediaWiki Hosting
Create your wiki with a few clicks via ProWiki, the hosting service by the Semantic MediaWiki maintainers.
Semantic MediaWiki Consulting
Get the most out of your semantic wiki by leveraging our unparalleled SMW expertise.
Semantic MediaWiki Development
Commission us to develop new SMW features, SMW extensions, SMW integrations, or fix bugs.
What is Semantic MediaWiki
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension to MediaWiki that adds the ability to store and query structured data within wiki pages. This transforms a standard wiki into a semantic wiki in which information can be organized, retrieved, and visualized. For example, you can annotate a page about a project with details like start date, status, and team members, then query the wiki to list all active projects from a specific year.
SMW's value lies in its combination of wiki collaboration and structured data management. It supports complex queries, dynamic report generation, and data export via the Semantic Web, making it versatile for various organizational needs. SMW is free and open source, and is used by thousands of organizations around the world. View SMW testimonials.
Manage Your Knowledge Via Forms
Define forms via which your wiki users can easily add and update knowledge.
Semantic MediaWiki supports auto-completion, validation and rich input elements.
Visualize Your Knowledge
Aggregate information into automatically generated lists or dynamic visualizations.
Visualize your knowledge directly in your wiki pages via Semantic MediaWiki queries.
You can also use queries to create different "views" on your data, optimizing your wiki for multiple use cases.
Free Your Knowledge
Integrate SMW with your internal systems or open up to the world.
Access your structured data in JSON, CSV, RDF, etc. via the web API. Or use the SPARQL endpoint.
Semantic MediaWiki Consulting
Get the most out of your semantic wiki via our Semantic MediaWiki consulting services.
Our Semantic MediaWiki consultants can assist you with the creation of data structures, extension installation, SMW configuration, data modeling, forms, usability improvements, data imports, permissions, MediaWiki upgrades, and more.
Our expertise includes, but is not limited to, Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Result Formats, Page Forms, Semantic Scribunto (Lua), Semantic Compound Queries, Semantic Tasks, Semantic Drilldown, and Graph databases (RDF triple stores) like Virtuoso, Jena Fuseki, or Blazegraph.
Unparalleled Semantic MediaWiki Expertise
Professional Wiki was founded by the maintainers of Semantic MediaWiki: Jeroen De Dauw and Karsten Hoffmeyer. Jeroen and Karsten have been involved with the project since 2009, made big changes and additions in SMW, contributed to dozens of SMW extensions, and gave several talks at SMWCons.
Professional Wiki helped countless organizations adopt Semantic MediaWiki. See our project portfolio or learn about Professional Wiki.
Customer Testimonials
Professional Wiki has been an invaluable collaborator in the Semantic MediaWiki space. Their dedication to maintaining the platform and creating high-quality extensions has greatly enhanced our joint projects. Their technical acumen in SMW is a testament to their commitment to the open source community.
We experience ProWiki as a reliable wiki hosting provider that responds quickly to all our questions and needs.
We unreservedly recommend Professional Wiki for all matters relating to MediaWiki.
They fully live up to their name: they are professional and know everything about (Semantic) MediaWiki!
From Our Blogs
Managing Data in MediaWiki
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Best MediaWiki Extensions
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Our MediaWiki Services
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