Hi,
Somewhat unexpectedly, there's been a lot of interest in doing work related
to Semantic MediaWiki for the Wikimedia Foundation's part in this year's
Google Summer of Code. Here's a student who wants to create a
natural-language querying interface for SMW, possibly by improving the "Ask
The Wiki" extension:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Michael_A._White/Proposal
And here's another student's idea, that was actually brought up on this
mailing list, to improve SMW's importing of RDF:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SHL/GSoC2010
And then there's the third item on this list:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010#Existing_extensions
...Jeroen's suggestion for adding more GIS-type functionality to Semantic
Maps.
I unfortunately can't mentor any of these, because I have my own proposed
project (the second item on that list :) ). But there may be others who can.
If you've done any SMW-related (or even just MediaWiki-related) development,
and find any of these projects interesting, please consider signing up as a
mentor, and/or contacting that student directly (for the GIS one, send an
email to Jeroen). From personal experience, I can say that being a GSoC
mentor is a very rewarding experience - you get to see a project come to
life, without having to take care of all the little details. I would
definitely recommend it.
-Yaron
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