On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Markus Krötzsch mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
But whenever I see people discussing SMW, I see talks about syntax and query performance. Syntax can be changed easily and queries can even be turned off, and still SMW is useful! Here are some things that SMW provides beyond parsing square brackets: [etc.]
The point is that it *does* provide so many things. This makes reviewing it pretty difficult, so it doesn't look likely to get enabled any time soon, according to my interpretation of statements I've seen from Brion. Thus we look to alternatives for use on Wikipedia, which are small and narrow and can be easily reviewed. If SMW were split into many small modules (possibly all with a dependency on a small central core) it might stand a better chance of ever being considered for use on Wikimedia projects.
Besides, stuff like tag searches should probably be in the core software, not an extension. They're a semi-expected feature in fancy Web 2.0 software these days.