To embed slideshare presentations in your page, you can’t beat the Widget Extension. The homepage for the extension features dozens of widgets to embed videos, feeds, maps and even other widgets from Google right in your MediaWiki pages.
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Getting started with Semantic MediaWiki
So, you read about Semantic MediaWiki and were intrigued enough to install it. Now what ? First, do yourself a favor and install Semantic Forms. It may seem a little intimidating at first, but it will save you loads of time later on. You can learn a lot by checking out the source of pages in an already available wiki.…
Tip for performance improvement using #urlget
I came across an interesting performance issue using #urlget (from the URLGetparameters extension). The details are here : www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:UrlGetParameters#Performance I know it is not directly related to SMW but since I used this extension to customize calls to semantic queries based on URL parameters, this may be relevant to other people doing the same thing. I was able to reduce…