2.5 Project Reports

We are finally deploying releases of Sweble and related software to Maven Central. This has many advantages for users of our software, among others: You don't have to refer to our Maven repositories any more in your own poms (if you only use our releases; snapshots are still only available from o...

We will be presenting our paper on the design and implementation of the Sweble Wikitext Parser at the WikiSym 2011 conference! The conference will take place in Mountain View, CA in October. For those of you who want to take a peek before the conference, we've put a pre-print version of t...

Wikipedia is a rich encyclopedia that is not only of great use to its contributors and readers but also to researchers and providers of third party software around Wikipedia. However, Wikipedia's content is only available as Wikitext, the markup language in which articles on Wikipedia are written. U...

You may have been reading Matt Aslett's analysis of the trend to permissive licensing as well Gordon Half's discussion of this trend. I enjoyed reading them and agree with the overall trend. I don't quite agree with the predicted downfall of Copyleft licenses, though, and I love the irony of it. ...

Our offer to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia (technical) community is this: Come up with a new and better Wikitext and use the Sweble Wikitext parser to convert old Wikipedia content to that new format. Naturally, the new Wikitext format should work well with visual editors etc. We have s...

CrystallBall is our parser demo so that you don't have to get down to code to check out the parser. It is a simple and easy way to see how we interpret Wikitext. The general Sweble Parser documentation is on the wiki, naturally. Here are a few examples, though, for the hurried among you. Please not...

We are happy to announce the general availability of the first public release of the Sweble Wikitext parser, available from http://sweble.org. The Sweble Wikitext parser can parse all complex Wikitext, incl. tables and templates produces a real abstract syntax tree (AST); a DOM will follo...

Finally, our Sweble project site has launched! And with it one of our first projects is going Open Source: The Wikitext Parser, developed at the Open Source Research Group at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. The Sweble project develops and provides libaries and components for a MediaWiki compati...

The survey results are in. Thanks to all 106 participants who contributed! A bit of background. Let me first say that the survey obviously was not comprehensive. There were a lot of good books that we missed. However, it was not the purpose to judge book authors but rather I wanted to feel confid...