[Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

[Erik Moeller]

2008/12/5 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> Semantic Mediawiki and Semantic Forms are already high quality mediawiki
> extensions that go along way towards usability and quality issues. They are
> also free.

Hi Brian,

an "environmental scan" of available technologies is part of the
project plan. We're well-aware of SMW and SMF - in fact we used a
screenshot of SMF in the grant proposal to illustrate easier editing
of template data. We'll definitely examine it as a potential building
block, and we'll share our thinking throughout the project.
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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