SMW tutorial

This page is a repository of all the resources of AIRWiki dedicated to inexperienced Semantic MediaWiki users.

Working with SMW

• Want to know what names of the semantic properties you should use in a query? Read here.
• Need to add a field to the semantic description of a category (with all the consequences)? Here is a guide for you.
• Writing queries? AIRWiki includes a collection of useful examples.
• SMW_Project_Workflow is a description of the complete lifecycle of a project in AIRWiki, from proposal to closure. Very useful if you are setting up or coordinating a project.

AIRWiki special pages dedicated to semantic content

The Special:SpecialPages page includes many interesting tools for the management of the semantic elements of AIRWiki. Below is a list of those, among these tools, which are most useful to non-expert users.

Browsing existing elements

• Special:Categories list of categories
• Special:Properties list of properties
• Special:Templates list of templates (the interesting ones are those which define a category)
• Special:Browse browse the semantic content of pages
• Special:SearchByProperty search for pages having a specific value for a property
• Special:Ask use your own semantic query to search through AIRWiki

Creating new elements

• Special:AddPage create a new page with (also) semantic content, using one of the available forms

Take a look to Special:SpecialPages for a complete list of the available tools.

External resources

• SMW help: help on the semantic tools provided by the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) extension used by AIRWiki.
• AIRWiki_Ontology: this is the structure of the ontology behind the semantic elements of AIRWiki. Useful to keep in mind when writing queries.
• SMW extension: official page of the SMW extension for MediaWiki. It provides a list of the features of SMW.
• Semantic Forms extension for SMW: official page of the extension providing SMW with semantic forms functionality, listing its features.