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