Yaron, Sergey, congrats! I am curious to see how well such an extension bundle is accepted -- MediaWiki could do with more installation helpers for its extension in general, so this could be an interesting experiment ...
Feel free to add a news item to the SMW homepage. Best, Markus On Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009, Yaron Koren wrote: > Hi, > > Sergey Chernyshev and I are pleased to announce Semantic Bundle, a > recently-released package of MediaWiki extensions based around Semantic > MediaWiki. It's meant to simplify usage of Semantic MediaWiki, by bundling > it together with 15 other extensions that are commonly used in conjunction > with SMW, into one downloadable .zip or .tgz file. You can read more about > Semantic Bundle, and download it, here: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle > > To quote from that page, there are a number of benefits to Semantic Bundle: > > - it provides a "best practices" set of extensions around Semantic > MediaWiki, based on user experiences > - it simplifies download, especially for those systems that don't have SVN, > and especially for those extensions (like ParserFunctions) that don't have > a downloadable version already > - it tries to guarantee working code by using tagged, stable versions of > extensions whenever possible > - it simplifies installation by providing a pre-generated list of includes > > To amplify on the third point, the plan is to update the Semantic Bundle > downloadables whenever a tag is incremented on one of the tagged extensions > that it uses. If you didn't know about tags, they've been supported for a > while on the MediaWiki SVN repository, although not that many extensions > use them yet. You can see their location here: > > http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/extensions/ > > We also encourage anyone who maintains an extension to create a tag for > their extensions, in order to create "stable" versions. > > Also, we hope that Semantic Bundle will serve as a model for other > extension "bundles" in the future. As the number of MediaWiki extensions > continues to grow, it becomes harder for administrators to research, > download and install every extension that might be useful to them; bundles > help to streamline that process. It should be noted that Semantic Bundle is > not the first bundle of extensions to be released, and not even the first > SMW-based one; that would be the "SMW+" package, created by Ontoprise. That > one is different, though, in that it includes MediaWiki itself, and in fact > at the moment it's a modified, patched version of MW, which makes SMW+ > somewhat more of an application in itself. So Semantic Bundle may be the > first "pure" package of extensions. > > -Yaron Koren > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Markus Krötzsch Institute AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 fax +49 (0)721 608 5998 [email protected] www http://korrekt.org http://semantic-web-book.org http://semantic-mediawiki.org
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