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[edit] Getting started

[edit] What is Faviki?

Faviki is a tool that brings together social bookmarking and Wikipedia. It lets you bookmark web pages using Wikipedia's terms. In Faviki, everybody uses the same names for tags from the world's largest collection of knowledge.

[edit] What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a method of keeping bookmarks on a website instead of on a computer and sharing them with your friends and other internet users. There are several advantages to this.

Easily accessible bookmarks

You can access your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter which computer you use: at home, at school, at work... Your bookmarks are always at the tips of your fingers.

Share your bookmarks

You can share your bookmarks with friends, coworkers and others. Show them the interesting things you found on the web!

Find what others like

Find people with similar interests and see what they bookmarked. Or find something new and exciting by browsing the tags from many Faviki users.

[edit] What is Tagging?

Tags are keywords or descriptors that you assign to your bookmarks. For instance if you wanted to describe the Google web site you could use tags such as "search engine" "internet" "image search" etc. Thanks to tags it is easy to search and find your bookmarks and also to browse through bookmarks added by others. You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like.

[edit] What are Semantic Tags?

Unlike classic tags, which are just words, semantic tags represent references to unique concepts that have their own URL. This solves the problem of having different tags for the same concept, which is the case with classic tags. So, instead of having different tags for the same concept, which is the case with classic tags (cocacola, coca-cola, coca+cola, CocaCola) there will be just the one unique “Coca-Cola” tag. Faviki is powered by DBpedia, which represents community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia for creating semantic tags.

[edit] Using Faviki

Some less experienced Internet users might be intimidated by the buzzwords such as "semantic". There's no need to be! Faviki is very simple to use by anybody.

[edit] Registering

Before you start using Faviki you must register. This is a fast and easy step. To register go to Sign up page. Submitting the form will then lead you to the install bookmarklet page.

[edit] Installing Bookmarklet

Bookmarklet allows you to mark a web page without having to visit Faviki each time you want to do so. Installing the bookmarklet is fast and easy and doesn't require you to restart your browser. To do so, go to Install bookmarklet pageand follow the instructions shown there. In most browsers it can be done by dragging the Faviki button on the bookmarks (links) toolbar.

Note that you must turn on the "bookmarks toolbar" (Firefox) or "links" (Internet Explorer) or "bookmarks bar" (Safari) option in your browser. Different browsers have different name for this option. It is usually found in the "view" menu of your browser, or in its "toolbars" sub menu.

[edit] Faviki Page Overview

A typical Faviki page has several parts. There is the user's menu where you can sign out or edit your profile. Here are also the links to yours and your friends' bookmarks. Then there is the search field and links to saving shortcuts and getting RSS. The main part of the page is a list of bookmarks with the navigation links to earlier and later bookmarks. The right side of the page contains context-dependent sidebar with tag info, related tags, page's popular topics and user info.

User's menu. You can sign out or edit your profile. Here are also the links to yours and your friends' bookmarks.
The search field.
Save a shortcut to this page or get the RSS.
List of bookmarks.
An opened bookmark.
Context-dependent page info: information about tag
Context-dependent page info: related tags
Popular topics on this page.
Links to earlier/later bookmarks.

[edit] Search

If you have saved a lot of bookmarks the easiest way to find any specific one is by using the search. The search field is located near the top of the page and consists of two parts: "people" and "tags".

To start the search, type the tags that you wish to search for in the "tags" field. As with adding tags you cannot type just anything. The tags you wish to search for must correspond to Wikipedia concepts. When you start typing an autocomplete list will appear with suggested tags. Just like when adding tags you can choose a tag from the list or use the Google search by pressing the [G] button.

You can search for more than one tag but they must be typed in one at a time and separated with semicolon (;). When searching for multiple tags you can chose whether to search for any of them (by choosing the "or" option) or for all of them (by choosing "and").

If there are any usernames present in the "people" field the search will include only the bookmarks from that user (or those users, if more than one username is present). If you wish to search the bookmarks of all Faviki users, the "people" field should be blank.

People field, separate multiple tags with semicolon (;).
Tags field, separate multiple tags with semicolon (;).
Google search - the use is the same as with adding tags.
Search button (or Enter).
When searching for multiple tags you can chose whether to search for any of them (by choosing the "or" option) or for all of them (by choosing "and").

[edit] My Bookmarks Page

Your bookmarks page is the place where you can view all the bookmarks you have saved.

Your domains, sorted by popularity from left to right.
Your tags. You can set the number you want to be shown and the sorting criteria.
Your friends - people you follow and people that follow you. You can invite friends by clicking on the 'invite friends' button.
Your shorcuts. Learn more

[edit] Searching Your Bookmarks

Searching your bookmarks is not different from searching bookmarks saved by all Faviki users. Learn more in the search section.

[edit] Shortcuts

You can save any Faviki page by using shortcuts. To save a shortcut, click on the "save shortcut" link (located in the blue bar below the search field). The page will be added to the "shortcuts" section located in the sidebar of your bookmarks page. You can use a shortcut to reach a page that concerns a topic you are interested in.

The examples could be Knowledge representation (topic) or Semantic Web and Wikipedia.

[edit] Saving Bookmarks

After you have installed the bookmarklet you can start saving bookmarks.

When you visit a web page that you would like to bookmark, click the Faviki button (bookmarklet that you have installed). Add tags by clicking on the suggested tags or typing them in the input field (Note that they must be added one at a time). Read more about adding tags in the next section.

You can add some additional information about the web page by clicking the "edit more" link. The "edit my note" field is meant for your comments about the page. You can also copy/paste text from the page and place it in the "edit text from page" field. Alternatively, if you select text on a web page and then click the Faviki button, the selected text will automatically be added to the "edit text from page" field.

After you have finished adding tags and editing notes click the "save" button. You can visit your Faviki page by clicking the Faviki link in the bookmarklet or close it.

Input field for entering a tag. Check out Adding Tags for more information.
Google search for tags. Click on the tag to remove it.
Tags you have added so far.
Suggested tags by Zemanta and other users who saved the same web page before. Click on the tag to add it.
The recent tags are the tags that you have added for the previous bookmarks. Use the arrows to go through your bookmark history.
A description of a tag is shown on rollover.
Click to edit title, your notes or text from the page.
Save and close. If you closed it by accident, just click on the Faviki button in the toolbar to open it again.
Click on the logo to go to your bookmarks page (with friends).

This screen appears when you click on the 'edit more >' button. You can go back to the previous screen by clicking on the '< add tags' button.

Edit a title of the webpage.
Check the private checkbox to make the bookmark invisible to others.
Add your note about the saved webpage.
Go back to the 'adding tags' screen.

Editing text from the webpage. If you select text from the webpage, it will be automatically included in the 'edit text from page' field, after you click on the Faviki bookmarklet.

You can edit text from the webpage here.
Selected text from the webpage which is automatically included.

[edit] Adding Tags

Adding tags in Faviki is slightly different than classic tagging because Faviki uses semantic tags - you cannot add a tag by typing just anything. The tag you wish to add must correspond to some Wikipedia concept. That way the same things will be labeled with the same tags.

The easiest way of adding tags is to click on the suggested tags or find it in your recent tags. If the tag you wish to add is not suggested, there are a few other options:

[edit] Autocomplete List

When you start the Faviki bookmarklet and start typing in the input field you will see an autocomplete list of suggested tags. This list will change depending on the letters you type. Usually it won't be necessary for you to type the whole word for it to appear in the autocomplete list.

When the tag that you wish to add appears in the autocomplete list click on it and the tag will be added to your bookmark. You can add as many tags as you like by repeating this process.

Start to type and autocomplete list will appear.
Tags above the delimiting line indicate the ones already added by Faviki users.
Tags below the delimiting line represent all DBpedia tags.

[edit] Google Search

Sometimes it is hard to find the most appropriate tag with autocomplete list, especially in the cases of acronyms and ambiguous terms. That is where Google search comes in handy. To find the most appropriate tag in such cases type in the tag and click the [G] button in the bookmarklet window. You will then see a list of tags. When you find the one you wish to add simply click on the "copy" link and the tag will be added.

Type in the tag you are looking for.
Click on this button to search.
Click one of these buttons to show one result, 4 results (default) or 8 results.
Close the Google search results.
List of found tags (Wikipedia pages).
Click on the 'copy' button to add the tag.
Navigate through the search result pages.