Hi, I'm happy to announce my latest MediaWiki extension, called Cargo:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo If you use Semantic MediaWiki, or have been curious about it, Cargo may be of interest to you. Cargo is essentially an alternative to SMW. It holds much of the functionality of SMW and many of its related extensions, but distilled into a fine brandy, if you will. It is one extension that literally takes the place of 14 extensions, with a much smaller code base and a significantly simpler database structure. It achieves this simplicity by eschewing the use of Semantic Web triples in favor of a direct use of database tables to store the data, with (usually) one table per template. And querying of the data is done using a fairly thin wrapper around SQL. If you have no interest in Semantic MediaWiki, on the other hand, you probably won't be interested in Cargo either. And if you know that I'm part of the SMW community, and are wondering why I've created an extension that seeks to replace SMW, there's a long answer to that, that we hashed out on the SMW mailing list. The short answer is that I still consider myself very much a member of the SMW community, and that I would call this new software an evolution, not a break from the past. Feel free to check out the documentation, try it out, and let me know if you have any questions. -Yaron -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
