Semantic MediaWiki
Unlock the potential of your wiki with Semantic MediaWiki. 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 SMW 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 a free and open-source extension to MediaWiki. SMW lets you store and query data within your wiki's pages. It turns your wiki into a flexible collaborative knowledge base. Thousands of wikis use Semantic MediaWiki. From large enterprises that use SMW for their internal knowledge management needs to public institutions that use SMW to publish their datasets. View testimonials.
Manage Your Knowledge Via Forms
Define forms via which your wiki users can easily add and update knowledge.
Semantic MediaWiki support 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 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.
We can assist you with the creation of data structures, installation of extensions, SMW configuration, data modeling, forms, usability improvements, data imports, permissions, or MediaWiki upgrades.
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 triple stores like Virtuoso, Fuseki, and 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 SMWCon.
At Professional Wiki, we assisted countless organizations with the adoption of Semantic MediaWiki.
From Our Blogs
Managing Data in MediaWiki
What software do you need to manage data/knowledge in your wiki? Historically this was Semantic MediaWiki. Is that still the case, and how do the alternatives stack up?
Best MediaWiki Extensions
There are thousands of extensions available for MediaWiki, so it can be tough to know which ones are the most useful. To help you out, we've compiled a list of the 15 most useful MediaWiki extensions.
Our MediaWiki Services
Software Development
Get superior results from the best MediaWiki developers with a proven tack record of creating MediaWiki extensions & integrations.
Explore Mediawiki Development
Theme Development
Make your wiki look great! Use a time-tested responsive MediaWiki theme, or have us create a custom MediaWiki skin for you.
Style Your Wiki
MediaWiki Hosting
Let us take care of your wiki. We are MediaWiki hosting experts and provide cloud hosting, on-premise hosting, and dedicated hosting.
Find the Perfect Wiki Hosting Plan
MediaWiki Consulting
Bring your wiki to the next level by leveraging our MediaWiki expertise. From strategic planning to wikitext, we have you covered.
Explore Our Consulting Services
MediaWiki Migration
Migrate your wiki with confidence. We move your MediaWiki to a new home, or we help you migrate from another system to MediaWiki.
Migrate Your Wiki
MediaWiki Upgrades
Keep your MediaWiki up-to-date and secure. We offer MediaWiki maintenance services to keep your wiki running smoothly.
Secure & Update Your Wiki