As a historian, I need to store the huge amount of data from archival sources. I will not comment a practice of many my colleagues who still store data in Excell tables. I will rather share my 17 years of experience.

At the beginning, I installed my own #MediaWiki instance, and shortly after that #SemanticMediaWiki. SMW is great for text annotations and for its customizability.

How to manage data catalogues behind data portals?
@krabina joins #ENDORSE2023 and speaks about the open-source OGD Cockpit, an example of using #SemanticMediaWiki for managing semantically enriched content, reusing #DCATAP vocabulary.
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I used to be a fairly active editor on #Wikipeida. I started every day with my watch list, just like my email inbox. I also ran a local Wikipedia meetup group for a time. I also used to admin a, uh, _number_ of #MediaWiki instances (Shout out, #SemanticMediaWiki ) Been a long time since then, though. Still a big fan.

Do I reach anyone who has experience using #SPARQL with #SemanticMediaWiki #MediaWiki ? I have an endpoint set up but I truly do not know how to secure it or what best practices are at all. documentation seems very very slim.

I'm getting really tired of #SemanticMediaWiki's bullshit.

I had this same problem the last time I upgraded MediaWiki. I solved it somehow; I don't remember how. Then there were a bunch of other problems due to SMW not supporting the latest MW, but I managed to patch around them.

Now, finally, SMW issues an upgrade to support the latest MW. "Great!", I think -- "Now I can get all of my pages working properly again!"

So I do the upgrade as instructed, and now I get this:

Semantic MediaWiki was installed and enabled but is missing an appropriate upgrade key.

The recommended remedies (upgrade.php, setupStore.php) do nothing, and contradict statements elsewhere that these steps are no longer necessary.

There is no clear information about how to regenerate the upgrade key, anywhere that I can find. There's only a vague hint that once you know what it is, you can put it in the LocalSettings.php file using the $smwgUpgradeKey setting -- but it's not clear whether that's necessary or helpful or under what circumstances one might do that.

It's also implied that if you run upgrade.php, setupStore.php, or populate­Hash­Field.php, they will put the upgrade key in the .smw.json file -- but they don't explain where that file is found, and I can't find it.

I just can't even. I'd be doing better if I'd written my own semantic data extension.

I'm rather peeved at #SemanticMediaWiki right now.

I just upgraded woozalia.com to the latest #MediaWiki (MW), and then of course had to reinstall Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) because it isn't just a matter of copying over the extension files (unlike every other MW extension). ...not that there are any instructions for upgrading SMW that I could find; I had to go with the "installation" instructions.

...and this is what I get.

I've done both of the things it said to do... and there doesn't appear to be any further diagnostic documentation on this problem.

Plus the protocol (https://) is missing on the last two links on the page, making them point back to nonexistent pages on my own site which display this same message.

This is all just really sloppy, guys. :scowl:​