Category:Planetary

Planetary System logo & wordmark Planetary System Changes • [No WikiNode] • About • Documentation • [No Source code] Main topic: Wiki engine Founded by: Wiki engine founder (founder and CTO, etc) Owner / CEO: Owner and/or CEO (owner and/or CEO) Interface language: English Programming language: LaTeXML Software license: GNU General Public License Status: Dead

Planetary was to be a new wiki engine which was in development. It was started August 2010 by members of the Jacobs University in Germany, and the Knowledge Media Institute (KMI) at The Open University (OU) in England, United Kingdom. It was hosted by Trac.

The Planetary System is a Web 3.0 information portal, which is specifically mathematics-enabled, and combines the social, user generated Web (Web 2.0) with semantic features. Its ethos is that it can be instantiated by a user community to individual 'planets' that combine material on a specific topic of joint interest. The fundament difference between sites which use Planetary, and Web 2.0 portals like Wikipedia, is that the 'planets' concentrate on semantic interactions and scientific topics (where semantic annotations of complex objects is worthwhile).

Its wiki syntax is as yet unknown, although it states it is a re-write of the Drupal software. The software does not appear to be available for download yet, although a PlanetMath AlphaRelease was available. It was intended to be released as Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and indications appear to state it was to be released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

It ceased to be available sometime April 2016.