Semantic MediaWiki 1.0 released

The first stable version the Semantic MediaWiki extension for MediaWiki [1], SMW 1.0, is now available. New features as compared to SMW 0.7 at a glance:

• Simplified semantic annotations: just one kind of annotation ("Property").
• Significant speedups for page rendering and loading
• Prettier and easier to understand interfaces
• Alternative inline query syntax {{#ask:...}}, fully compatible with MediaWiki templates, template parameters, and other extensions
• Semantic RSS feeds: subscribe to your favourite query results
• More expressive semantic querying: class and property hierarchies, equality
• Pattern matching, disjunctions, and inequality in query conditions
• Fewer and simpler datatypes, more tolerant parsing
• Better media support: better treatment of links to Image: and Media:
• Better internationalisation, new languages: Dutch, Chinese
• New experimental n-ary properties, for list-like property values
• Ontology import re-enabled (simple annotation import)
• Support for upcoming MediaWiki 1.12
• Many many bugfixes and minor improvements

SMW 1.0 requires MediaWiki 1.11 and is already compatible with the upcoming version 1.12. More information is obtained via our online documentation [2] which will be further updated within the next couple of weeks, and the support mailinglist [3] (requires subscription).

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/
[2] http://semantic-mediawiki.org
[3] semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net