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easy-to-use manner, enabling even casual users to participate in the creation of an
open semantic knowledge base. Wikipedia has the chance to become a resource of
semantic statements, hitherto unknown regarding size, scope, openness and inter-
nationalisation. These semantic enhancements bring to Wikipedia the benefits of
today's semantic technologies: more specific ways of searching and browsing.
Also, the RDF export, which gives direct access to the formalised knowledge,
opens Wikipedia up to a wide range of external applications that will be able to
use it as a background knowledge base.
Semantic Wikis combine the strengths of the social “Web 2.0” and the Semantic
Web [ 33 ]. This also overcomes some of their respective weaknesses or deficiencies.
There are a growing number of Semantic MediaWiki extensions on offer today for
adding and modifying data.
There is much potential for Semantic Wiki. Wikipedia can benefit by enhancing
it with semantic technologies in ways of searching and browsing. The RDF export
in semantic Web gives direct access to the formalised knowledge and opens
Wikipedia up to a wide range of external applications so that it can be used as a
background knowledge base. Future Semantic Wikis will be easy to use; they will
enable us to programme in the same way as the Wiki pages are edited. Most
Semantic Wikis will offer both data and knowledge exchange.

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