semantic::core - A look back into seven years of enterprise class MediaWiki and an outlook on the future

semantic:: core - A look back into sever years…
Alexander Gesinn

semantic::core
• Enterprise class wiki distribution
based on MediaWiki and its
Semantic extensions
• Born from the enterprise and
built for the enterprise
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The Software Stack

The Early Years
• single OS
• error-prone
• time-consuming

The Early Years
not scaling well…

First Automation…
• simplified setup
• but not idempotent
• difficult to update
existing setups
• difficult to support
multiple OS
growing number of
sources

First Automation…
multi OS often requires
„multi admin“

Automation first!
• multi OS
• idempotent
• fully automated
class { 'mediawiki':
server_name => 'localhost:8080',
admin_email => 'wikitest@testing.com',
db_root_password => ‘secretpwd',
doc_root => '/var/www/wikis',
temp_dir => '/vagrant/.tmp',
tarball_url => 'https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki
tarball => 'mediawiki-1.27.1.tar.gz',
mediawiki_dir => 'mediawiki-1.27.1',
}

The Wiki Factory
OS independant
semantic::core
„binary“
• Bare Metal
• Hypervisors
• Cloud
• Embedded

The Wiki Factory
master/client
multi node setup
and maintenance

The Content

semantic::apps
• semantic::apps are modular and reusable business
applications for collaboration and documentation
Contact Location ProcessProject

semantic::apps fully featured
• ~50 forms
• ~230 templates
• ~2700 pages in total

Content Management – The Early Years
• Java Bot > MW API
• i18n support
• but difficult to
maintain

Content Management – Today
• Model driven
• Only very little MW
syntax left
• Ability to
migrate/curate

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