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Welcome to the FOAF Wiki

This is the wiki for the FOAF project.

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.

'STATUS': Testing site integrity after hack and wiki version migration issues. Edit at your own risk for now. --danbri@danbri.org

This installation also has a basic (not yet tuned) installation of Semantic MediaWiki. This might be useful for keeping community notes here in a way that is queryable. See http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Import_vocabulary for notes in importing vocabularies (such a FOAF) into SMW.

Currently the most important entry here is the IssueTracker, which keeps note of known issues with FOAF.

Consult the MediaWiki User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Feel free to add links, suggestions here, much as you might on the foaf-dev mailing list. Leave a link and brief description here if you add new content. A consequence of this is that as a reader, you shouldn't expect complete coherence from the site: you'll find a mix of useful tips, personal content, brainstorming and scribbles. Consider this a freeform scratchpad, designed to be easy to update, and as a quick place to capture an idea or link before it is forgotten.


Contents

Editing pages

This wiki is terribly messy; sorry! As of November 1st 2007 it is republished using MediaWiki with better spam control. We got spammed to bits; the Wiki has been migrated to MediaWiki, and we prefer edits associated with an OpenID. In the future (as spammers make more use of OpenID) we are likely to require some form of connection to a known member of the community before edits are accepted. For work in this area see the writeup from the MIT DIG group on using FOAF and OpenID together.

Jumping Off Points

Some starting points:

  • The FAQ has answers to a number of FOAF related questions including general project and "getting started" information. See FoafHistory for some background on the origins of the FOAF project, and FoafMentions for links to FOAF in the news (From the days when it was notable for FOAF to be mentioned elsewhere!)
  • upcoming and past FoafMeets - face to face FOAF meetings
  • Information for Developers
  • Tools, including FoafNaut and other CoolStuff
  • DataSources - various places to get FOAF data, including sites that export it
  • Vocabulary -- information about FOAF syntax and vocabulary, see also FoafExamples which has a number of worked examples showing how to use particular aspects of the FOAF vocabulary
  • Tutorials -- a list of FOAF tutorials out on the web. Also check out CategoryTutorial
  • The FOAFBulletinBoard provides a way for sharing your FOAF URL with other people, and more importantly Foaf harvesters
  • ApplicationIdeas -- a page listing ideas for FOAF applications.
  • Criticism -- critiques of FOAF
  • Possible Issues -- issues as raised in implementation, need to be sorted

See also the recent changes for machine-generated list of latest edits and additions, and ChangeLog for some manual entries.

Active Pages

A Wiki really comes into its own when its users help to refine each others pages, e.g. adding information, answering questions, providing feedback, etc. Here's a list of pages that you can help out with. * Comments -- pages requesting comments. Add your feedback

  • TODO -- pages requesting help. Give them some love.
  • UnderConstruction -- pages under construction. Give the author time to finish before adding comments.
  • Refactoring -- pages being reworked. Let things settle down before editing.
  • WantedPages -- pages that are awaiting creation. Add some content
  • OrphanedPages -- pages that aren't linked into the Wiki. Delete them if they're dead, or link 'em if they're useful
  • AbandonedPages -- old, unedited pages. Bring them up to date.


Raw category list

The 320 pages imported from our original Wiki were added to several named categories.

See Special:Categories for a list of categories; note that some category pages are still to be created, even though pages are filed within them.


Elsewhere

Related sites

Web site / wiki contact: DanBri (danbri@danbri.org) or the FOAF mailing list.

Wiki admin: Special:ListUsers/sysop is a list of sysop accounts; contact danbri if you want to help; sysops can use the Special:UserRights page which can grant bureacrat status (which lets you help with exciting stuff like spam deletions).

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