What is Semantic MediaWiki, and why would I want to use it?
Semantic MediaWiki, usually abbreviated SMW, is an extension to MediaWiki that allows you to easily store the data in a wiki so that it is queriable. Using SMW, in addition to some of its spinoff extensions, allows you to create automatic lists and tables, as well as other displays such as maps and calendars, for the information that you already have stored across your pages. In addition, you can easily define forms for adding and editing the page “infoboxes” that hold this data; in this way, the data in your wiki can gain more structure in addition to reusability. With just a little bit of setup work, SMW can turn a wiki from a collection of text pages to a true collaborative database. It should be noted that there are at least two other wiki farms that also support Semantic MediaWiki: Wikia and YourWiki. Both currently add support for SMW only on user request, and both hold only a subset of the extensions that Referata does; though we hope that their support for SMW will grow in the
