[Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?

[David Gerard]

2009/1/11 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:

> Keep in mind regarding my Semantic drum beating that I am not a developer of
> Semantic Mediawiki or Semantic Forms. I am just a user, and as Erik put it,
> an advocate.


Semantic MediaWiki's syntax is disastrously horrible and intended for
ontology geeks, not the mere humans for whom the tag soup nature of
wikitext is a *feature*, not a bug. It's really not clear how you can
condemn the present parser and consider SMW not awful.


- d.