User:Simant/Help:Semantic MediaWiki

Semantic MediaWiki is a powerful extension that helps users to search, organise, tag, browse, evaluate, and share a wiki's content. While traditional wikis contain only text which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that allow a wiki to function as a collaborative database.

Wikia can enable Semantic MediaWiki (and related extensions Semantic Forms and Semantic Drilldown) on request for wikis which have users on hand who know how to use it, or are willing to learn and provide support for others.

The extension is very flexible, which means that it has complicated aspects which take time to master. Wikia's Community Team cannot provide support on using it, but the Semantic-MediaWiki.org wiki provides a manual, mailing list and chatroom for finding help. See also help on Semantic Search.

Where is it in use?
These Semantic extensions are currently in use on the following Wikia:

(*) Indicates that the wiki actually has useful queries. Incomplete list. It can also be tested on:
 * Age of Conan
 * Animanga
 * Anime
 * Anime (Japanese)
 * Ars curandi (Portuguese)
 * Banjo
 * BestBrute - MyBrute Wiki
 * Bibliographie (German)
 * Blogging
 * Chaotic
 * Cocktails
 * Common Sense
 * Discworld MUD
 * Dooglegod
 * Dungeons and Dragons
 * The Elder Scrolls Fanon
 * Eushully
 * Fan Fic
 * Genealogy - Familypedia *
 * Government Wiki - Giki
 * Grand Theft Encyclopedia (Spanish)
 * GuildWiki
 * Guild Wars 2 Wiki (French)
 * Istaria
 * K-On!
 * Magic: The Gathering
 * Museums
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
 * Naruto *
 * Negima!
 * O2Jam
 * Our Brant - local history wiki for the County of Brant
 * PC - Computing Knowledgebase
 * Pirates of the Burning Sea
 * Psychology
 * Ragnarok Online 2
 * Railway Wiki (Japanese)
 * Routes - WikiSara highway information
 * Semantic Lyrics
 * Software
 * Software (German)
 * Soul Eater *
 * SporeWiki
 * SuperWikia - superhero roleplaying
 * The Third Turn - backbone to NASCAR site's statistical services.
 * Warhammer Online
 * The Webcomic Wiki
 * Wikia Gaming
 * The World Ends With You
 * WoWWiki
 * Yellowikis
 * Yu-Gi-Oh *
 * Yu-Gi-Oh (Spanish)
 * Yu-Gi-Oh Card Maker
 * SMW Test Wiki
 * Sysop Test Wiki

See also:
 * 1) Sites outside Wikia (incomplete list on "Meta")