mediawiki/semantic-glossary

A terminology markup extension with a Semantic MediaWiki back-end

6.0.0 2026-03-13 10:21 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• composer/installers: >=1.0.1
• mediawiki/lingo: >=3.2.3
• mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki: >=6.0

Requires (Dev)

• mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer: 46.0.0
• mediawiki/minus-x: 1.1.3
• php-parallel-lint/php-console-highlighter: 1.0.0
• php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint: 1.4.0

GPL-2.0-or-later

• Stephan Gambke
• James Hong Kong

• extension
• wiki
• mediawiki
• Semantic MediaWiki
• glossary
• terminology
• lingo

README

The Semantic Glossary (a.k.a SG) is a Semantic MediaWiki extension where terms and abbreviations can be defined using semantic properties.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or later
• MediaWiki 1.43 or later
• Semantic MediaWiki 6.0 or later
• Lingo 3.2.3 or later

Installation

Note that the Semantic MediaWiki and Lingo extensions need to be installed first. Moreover they need to be invoked earlier than this extension.

The way to install this extension is by using Composer. Just add the following to the MediaWiki "composer.local.json" file and run the php composer.phar install/update mediawiki/semantic-glossary command.

{
	"require": {
		"mediawiki/semantic-glossary": "~6.0"
	}
}

Then add the following line to your "LocalSettings.php" file:

wfLoadExtension( 'SemanticGlossary' );

Contribution and support

If you want to contribute work to the project, please subscribe to the developers' mailing list and have a look at the contribution guideline.

• Ask a question on the mailing list

Tests

This extension provides unit and integration tests that are run by a continuous integration platform but can also be executed using composer phpunit from the extension base directory.

License

GNU General Public License 2.0 or later.