== About ==

Semantic MediaWiki is a project for extending MediaWiki with "semantic"
functions that enable machine-reading of wiki-content. For details and
further links, see http://semantic-mediawiki.org

Notes on installing Semantic MediaWiki are found in the file INSTALL.

== Contact ==

If you have remarks, questions, or suggestions, please send them to
semediawiki-users@lists.sourceforge.net. You can subscribe to this
list at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=semediawiki-user.

Bugs should be filed at MediaZilla, http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/.

People who want to contribute work to the project should subscribe to
the developers list semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.

Specific inquiries (e.g. for press releases) should go to Markus Krötzsch,
markus@semantic-mediawiki.org. Do not contact Markus directly if you just need
free technical support -- that is what the user list is for.

== Developers ==

Development is coordinated by Markus Krötzsch and Denny Vrandecic.

Semantic MediaWiki development is funded by Institut AIFB of
Universität Karlsruhe, Germany; see http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Specific development tasks have been supported by the European Union under the
projects SEKT, NeOn, and Active. SMW has also been supported in the
Halo project funded by Vulcan Inc., where development is coordinated
by ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany.

== Contributors ==

* S Page has contributed code, and currently coordinates user support.

* Heiko Haller and Max Völkel contributed to the initial design and basic
  architectural decisions.

* The German company Doccheck (doccheck.com) helped to get the implementation
  going at the early stages of the project, and set up the first testing wiki.
  The first implementation has been done by Klaus Lassleben.

* Code has been contributed by (in no particular order) Kai Hüner, Fernando Correia,
  Yaron Koren, Nick Grandy, Jörg Heizmann, Daniel Herzig, Nikolas Iwan, Tobias Matzner,
  Thomas Bleher, Felix Kratzer, Frank Dengler, Nathan R. Yergler, Daniel Friesen,
  Fabian Howahl, Jie Bao, Marcel Gsteiger

* The new logo and related artwork for Semantic MediaWiki (see semanticweb.org)
  has been designed and realised by Rozana Vrandecic.

== Translations ==

Translations to various languages are provided and maintained by many people.
In general, main contributors can be found in the message file. Special thanks
are due to Siebrand Mazeland and the Betawiki project for their excellent
support in that matter.

Before moving to Betawiki, the following people already contributed significantly
to translating SMW:

* The Jurispedia project (www.jurispedia.org) has initiated and supported
  some of the translations:

** Translation to Arabic has been contributed by Mahmoud Zouari.

** Translation to French has been contributed by Pierre Matringe.

** Translation to Spanish has been contributed by Javier Calzada Prado and
   Carmen Jorge García-Reyes of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

* Slovak translation has been provided by user helix84.

* Hebrew translation has been provided by Udi Oron.

* Polish translation has been provided by Łukasz Bolikowski.

* Russian translation has been provided by Дмитрий Хорошев (Dmitry Khoroshev)

* Dutch translation has been provided by Siebrand Mazeland

* Chinese translations have been provided by 張致信 (Michael Chang)

* Italian translation has been provided by Davide Eynard and David Laniado

== Credits to other projects ==

* Most icons used by Semantic MediaWiki are derived from the "Crystal Clear"
  icon theme for KDE, which was created by Everaldo (everaldo.com).

* The sorttable java script function was developed by Stuart Langridge,
  and taken from http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable. The current
  code for sorting tables is derived from this original code.

* Many people have contributed to the project by providing helpful comments and
  suggestions. Among them are the members of the Semantic Wiki Interest Group
  (swikig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de; see semanticweb.org), the people at the project
  mailing lists, and, of course, a number of anonymous reviewers. Thanks a lot!