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Wikis are social software transforming visitors into collaborators. Semantic wikis are social semantic software that combines the most salient aspects of wikis with technologies from the Semantic Web. They play an important role in the construction of the social semantic web. They have the mission to gather humans and computers in order to build together the next wave of lightweight ontologies.

Semantic wikis have grown up. Foundational research on them is done in large projects, some enterprise systems are sold commercially, and certain established systems have evolved into operating system like platforms for semantic social software. Classical wikis are starting to adopt basic concepts of semantic wikis, and the “wiki spirit”, including easy collaboration and linking of knowledge, is found in more and more innovative applications, such as Google Wave.

Recently, the focus of semantic wiki research has shifted from proofs of concept and hacks to real-world use cases. Besides evaluations of such use cases, foundational research and technical innovation are still needed, as the large-scale application of semantic wikis has unveiled a number of research questions that the academic community now has to answer in a consolidated effort.

The aim of this fifth SemWiki workshop is to exchange ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from practical usage of semantic wikis, and to explore integrations of wikis with other semantic web technologies. The outcome of the workshop will be a collection of open research questions, an overview of the structure of the research area (open space session, to be documented in this wiki), experience reports (what works in semantic wikis and what does not yet?), and a state-of-the-art overview of applications of semantic wikis. As semantic wikis contain many of the core Semantic Web challenges in an integrated fashion, they act as “Petri dishes” for the semantic web; thus, the results obtained in this workshop will have a wider impact on Semantic Web research and Web Science.