# Vienna History Wiki

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'''Vienna History Wiki''' ({{langx|de|Wien Geschichte Wiki}}) is a freely accessible [online](/source/online) collection of [reference work](/source/reference_work)s in [German](/source/German_language) about the history of [Vienna](/source/Vienna). The main content of the wiki are persons, buildings, topographical objects (streets, parks, waters, districts...), organisations, events and other items (such as special German expressions used in Vienna). It is written by Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna and Vienna City Library staff as well as external experts, and all content is subject to an editorial process and approved before publication.

==Background==
The "Vienna History Wiki" was built up by the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna (MA8) and the Vienna City Library (MA 9). It was opened to the public in 2014. It is a historical knowledge platform of the City of Vienna aiming at combining knowledge from the city administration with those of external experts. Amongst several departments of the City of Vienna, other project partners are continuously working on the content, e. g. the [Vienna Museum](/source/Vienna_Museum), [Jewish Museum Vienna](/source/Jewish_Museum_Vienna), Association for the History of Vienna, Austrian Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Environmental History, [Austrian Mediathek](/source/Austrian_Mediathek).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Krabina|first1=Bernhard|chapter=The Vienna history Wiki: A collaborative knowledge platform for the city of Vienna |editor1-last=Riehle|editor1-first=Dirk|title=Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration|date=2015|page=19:1–19:8|doi=10.1145/2788993.2789835|publisher=ACM|isbn=978-1-4503-3666-6 |s2cid=16545150|chapter-url=https://zenodo.org/record/894096}}</ref>

Cornerstone of the wiki are more than 27,000 articles (31,000 entries) of the six-volume encyclopedia "Historisches Lexikon Wien" edited by [Felix Czeike](/source/Felix_Czeike) (2nd edition 2004).

The Vienna History Wiki uses [Semantic MediaWiki](/source/Semantic_MediaWiki), where facts from the wiki pages are stored and can be retrieved inside the wiki as well as exported in different formats (e. g. [JSON](/source/JSON) or [RDF](/source/Resource_Description_Framework)). Since 2021 is mainly uses [Schema.org](/source/Schema.org) as vocabulary for the [ontology](/source/Ontology_(computer_science)). The wiki is still growing, and demonstrates a satisfied user base<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Krabina|first1=Bernhard|title=Building a Knowledge Graph for the History of Vienna with Semantic MediaWiki|journal=Journal of Web Semantics|date=2023|doi=10.1016/j.websem.2022.100771|publisher=Elsevier|volume=76|article-number=100771 |s2cid=255024419 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [List of online encyclopedias](/source/List_of_online_encyclopedias)
* [List of wikis](/source/List_of_wikis)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Vienna_History_Wiki}}
* [https://histowiki.com/history/ Historical Societies]

Category:Culture of Austria
Category:History of Vienna
Category:Austrian online encyclopedias
Category:Semantic wikis

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