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Semantic MediaWikiDocumentation in the 21st century

Will Swales1 Owen Kellie-Smith2

1Blue Actuarial

2Aviva

Life Conference, 2015

MediaWiki

Not new - made for WikipediaAccessed though a browserFree, libre, open-sourceExtended by Semantic MediaWiki

1 DocumentsSharing documents

2 FindBy title, content, editor

3 EditFlexibility, control, re-use

4 CommentTalk pages

5 BroadcastWhat’s new and who’s it from

6 RequirementsSkills, permissions

What we do all day (share documents)

find document create document

edit document comment on document

broadcast what’s new

Worker

Many of us share documents via email and Microsoft Office.

What we do all day (share documents)

Worker

Many of us share documents via email and Microsoft Office.

Semantic MediaWiki enables sharing

Worker

4 CommentTalk pages

Finding documents

Do we have anything about subject-X?Where is that thing person-Y was working on a while ago?

Do we have anything about CPM?

Where is that thing Will was working on?

Finding related documents

What can put this in context?What links to this?

What links here

Context from category

Renaming doesn’t break links

Compare features for finding

Windows Share-Point MediaWikiFind by string or user 7 4 4

Find by category 4 4 4

See links in 7 4 4

Rename safely 7 4 4

Recategorise safely 7 7 4

4 CommentTalk pages

Editing documents

What version control is there?How much flexibility is allowed?How can flexibility be contained?

Contain flexibility by gatekeeping

Provide flexibility for UML

Editing documents

How is earlier work re-used?

Re-use glossary (tooltips)

Compare features for editing

Windows Share-Point MediaWikiForms 4 7 4

Gatekeeping 7 7 4

Glossary 7 7 4

Parsable external data 4 7 4

Templates 7 7 4

4 CommentTalk pages

Commenting on documents

What do people think of this document?

Thoughts in the Talk pages

4 CommentTalk pages

Alerting readers

What’s new?What’s been changed?What progress has been made?

What’s new over all

Who’s changed any document

What’s new in any document

Compare features for broadcasting

Windows Share-Point MediaWikiComments attached 7 7 4

Version control 7 4 4

Track changes (any pair) 7 4 4

Compare features

Windows Share-Point MediaWikiFind by string or user 7 4 4

Find by category 4 4 4

See links in 7 4 4

Rename with impunity 7 4 4

Recategorise with impunity 7 7 4

Forms 4 7 4

Gatekeeping 7 7 4

Glossary 7 7 4

Parsable external data 4 7 4

Templates 7 7 4

Comments attached 7 7 4

Version control 7 4 4

Track changes (any pair) 7 4 4

4 CommentTalk pages

Skills

Writing pages (like writing in Word or entering data inExcel).Writing templates (like writing Excel formulae).Writing modules (like writing VBA).

Configuring server (if setting up your own). Needsfamiliarity with PHP & e.g. Apache.

Skills

Writing pages (like writing in Word or entering data inExcel).Writing templates (like writing Excel formulae).Writing modules (like writing VBA).Configuring server (if setting up your own). Needsfamiliarity with PHP & e.g. Apache.

Resources

Help page at e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contentsmediawiki.orgWorking with Mediawiki by Yaron Koren [1]semantic-mediawiki.orgwebmasters.stackexchange.com

To set up your own wiki

External (public information):15 mins on e.g. openshift.com.Example (with cloning instructions) atmediawiki-treaties.rhcloud.com/wiki.

In-house (confidential information):Agreement from IT Security, IT Architecture, Procurementetc. 27 contributors (that we know about). Thank you!

Summary

Semantic MediaWiki - find everything in one place.

Appendix

Beamer

Slides were made with Beamer[2] using the Frankfurttheme.Screen shots are from modelling.friendslife.co.uk at 1600 x900 resolution at 250% or 400% magnification.Text aims to follow Lucidity principles[3].

Appendix

For Further Reading

Yaron Koren.Working with MediaWiki.WikiWorks Press, 2012.

Till Tantau.User Guide to the Beamer Class.

Michael McIntyreLucidity principles in brief.www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/lucidity-in-brief.

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