Multilingual Semantic MediaWiki

Multilingual Semantic MediaWiki is a multilingual and semantic MediaWiki. The concept is illustrated by alive implementations (which use Semantic MediaWiki, Wikibase or both):

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Niklas Laxström

A few wikis, developed mostly by Niklas Laxström, build on the original concept by Laxström and Kanner (2015) below:

• https://tieteentermipankki.fi/
• https://sanat.csc.fi/ (including a WordNet import)
• https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/

Other wikis are focused on a single content language but for (multilingual) linguistic content:

• https://nimiarkisto.fi/

A few extensions and tools have been developed as part of the effort, including WikibaseStatementUpdater. Some configuration scripts were also made available.

Other concepts

Other semantic wikis support translations at some degree:

• https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/

See also

• Laxström and Kanner (2015), Multilingual Semantic MediaWiki for Finno-Ugric dictionaries: paper which defines MSMW and what had been done until then.
• phabricator:T48522 outlines some future work
• tracking issue on GitHub
• Multilingual MediaWiki (historical) and m:Category:Multilingualism for past discussions of multilingualism in MediaWiki
• information on <Semantic-MediaWiki.org> supporting multilingual content.