On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:39:21AM -0800, Elliott F. Cable wrote:
More the belief that it is needed. The point is not to bloat things and confuse people, which semantic MW does.
The idea of wiki syntax is to be simple. Easy to learn. MediaWiki already includes many features where this does not apply: * table markup * templates * advanced image syntax
The additional changes to the syntax needed for Semantic Mediawiki would make the syntax even more difficult to understand, especially for people who are not aware of semantic markup. Things like
San Diego is a [[is a::city]]. It has a population of [[population:=1300000]].
are not very intuitive any more. Good ideas how to hide the complexity from newbies would be very welcome.
Another problem with SMW is code quality, which currently is not good enough for use at Wikipedia. Scalability has improved with 0.4, but more improvement is still needed.
SMW also needs a security review, looking at the code for a few minutes already showed XSS issues that need to be fixed urgently.
Regards,
jens