Re: [SMW-devel] The unaskable question about SMW and Wikipedia

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21.12.2009 5:59, Jeff Thompson пишет:
> Every once in a while I work up the courage to ask about SMW on
> Wikipedia.  Is there anything that can be said about plans for this
> game-changing event?
>
> Thanks,
> - Jeff
>
>    
I can tell you only some rumours:
1. SMW requires to be reviewed by MediaWiki release manager to be 
deployed at Wikimedia sites, including the Wikipedia. It has to be 
compact and efficient enough for deploying in wikipedia. I believe they 
have mentioned that it's code was a bit too large. It is efficient for 
small and medium sites, but English or German wikipedias are not medium.
2. Some of Wikimedia coders were skeptical whether the benefits will 
outweigh the burden of supporting extra properties, complained that for 
some purposes there is not enough flexibility (limited n-aries, perhaps?).
3. Wikipedia hardware seems to be already highly loaded, their DB 
engineer wrote recently that newly introduced flagged revisions feature 
may soon require an additional high-class server purchase. What would 
require SMW, something even more expensive? Wikimedia operates on much 
smaller budget than another world top10 sites.

I am a bit worrying about SMW future in general, to me it seems that 
Markus is very busy these days.
I still have a dream to create a medium-size wiki with it, but also 
currently don't have enough of the time :-(
Dmitriy