Common Wiki systems such as MediaWiki lack semantic annotations.
WikSAR (Semantic Authoring and Retrieval within a Wiki), a prototype
of a semantic Wiki, offers effortless semantic authoring. Instant gratification of
users is achieved by context aware means of navigation, interactive graph visualisation
of the emerging ontology, as well as semantic retrieval possibilities.
Embedding queries into Wiki pages creates views (as dependant collections) on
the information space. Desktop integration includes accessing dates (e.g. reminders)
entered in the Wiki via local calendar applications, maintaining
bookmarks, and collecting web quotes within the Wiki. Approaches to reference
documents on the local file system are sketched out, as well as an enhancement
of the Wiki interface to suggest appropriate semantic annotations to
the user.