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How does this compare to Wikidata? I've been able to do some powerful things by querying Wikidata (via the Mediawiki query API, not the SPARQL one, which turned
by ak217 3y ago
How does this compare to Wikidata? I've been able to do some powerful things by querying Wikidata (via the Mediawiki query API, not the SPARQL one, which turned out to be unusable). I've also seen Wikipedia editors do great things with templates that I believe use Wikidata as a backend.
- bawolff 3y agoSemanticMediaWiki is much older than wikidata. Some of the people involved were involved in both. Big difference is that wikidata is an entirely separate wiki from client wikis, where smw is much more closely integrated into "articles". This allows wikidata to abstract across multiple language wikipedias. In practise that means that wikidata is often used to store factual data outside of articles that than gets pulled in via templates. SMW tends to more get used as a backend to turn mediawiki into a user programmable CRUD/workflow app (particularly with PageForms extension) SMW is less concerned about scalability and performance. Wikidata puts anything of questionable scalability separate from the system (e.g. sparql api is isolated from rest). SMW would be unlikely to scale to anywhere near wikipedia levels in its current form.