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

[Denny Vrandečić]

That's pretty much exactly what Semantic MediaWiki offers.

SMW has developed a lot, since many of you saw it. By now, you may
* switch off inline queries if you are afraid they won't work fast enough
* get rid of the ugly syntax everyone is scared about (and simply hide
it all in templates by using the #declare function)
* have all that data sitting there inside the DB and export it in
standard data formats like RDF or JSON (ok, well, the last one is
*almost* finished)

We would be very much interested in having SMW tested on a labs machine
with a copy of a reasonably big Wikipedia (e.g. German).

And, just to take note to the title of this thread -- I never thought
and the developers never gave me the feeling that the software is out of
reach for the community. Access to SVN was swiftly granted, and both Tim
and Brion were always giving encouraging and valuable feedback to us.

Cheers,
denny

Magnus Manske wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
>> David Gerard wrote:
>>> The other useful thing that can be done with templates is to
>>> standardise the field names in them as much as possible per wiki.
>>>
>>> The reason? To enhance machine readability of data in them. People are
>>> SERIOUSLY INTERESTED in this.
>> Another useful thing: after an article is parsed, write all the
>> templates it uses and their parameters in the database. Even if at first
>> it isn't possible to read this data on Wikipedia, Toolserver could do
>> wonders with it :)
> 
> People (including yours truly) have been asking for this for years...
> 
> Magnus
> 
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