Maybe it's a bigger problem -- mainly the failure of having all the extensions of Mediawiki more clearly organized and presented to the public. It's still amazing to me that the one and only method to announce new extensions, the Extension Matrix, has been broken since October and it seems there are no plans to fix it. None of the extensions are rated, or have been rated (I understand there is a Google summer of code working on that -- hopefully it gets somewhere). The level of knowledge to install an extension varies based on the developer's thoughts.
Mediawiki is great software that deserves a better standard for presenting itself to the public. When you compare Mediawiki to Wordpress, Joomla, etc., one quickly realizes Mediawiki is far behind the curve. For comparison look at the plugin for Joomla called Jomsocial and the Mediaiwki extension Social Profile: one has evolved into something that is up to speed in the modern Internet while one has mostly likely not changed since 2008. Of course, some extensions will die, or get old, but the Mediawiki model of presenting extensions is still very poor.
I could go on, but it's already too much of a rant.
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On Jun 26, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Vedmaka god.vedmaka@gmail.com wrote:
This is a big problem, why people often unaware of the SMW existence.
26.06.2014 9:38, Albert Coder пишет:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Krabina Bernhard krabina@kdz.or.at wrote:
You should ask this on the SMW developer mailinglist...
Alright Krabina!
Thank you all for your valuable suggestions.
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