Hi all,

as some of you wondered already about the recent quietness at least on my 
part, here is an update on our current actions. Denny and I are about to do a 
lot of behind-the-scenes work and planning. While this keeps us from (rather 
necessary) development activity, we probably spend more time than ever on 
SMW-related activities.

Some of the current actions involve industry cooperations that I cannot detail 
too much at the moment. Be assured, however, that all SMW-related efforts in 
those projects will immediately feed back into the open source. The current 
intense planning phase is very important to enable a *significantly* larger 
team of developers to contribute within the next months. Stay tuned for 
upcoming features.

Besides this work, we still found time to finally do some proper performance 
evaluation with a full-featured Wikipedia copy. Lacking the assiduous 
community of the original, we are importing a large number of 
semi-automatically generated annotations into the system, and run queries 
over it. This work will be the basis for upcoming performance improvements, 
which some of the large-scale wikis using SMW certainly will welcome (yes, 
Archiplanet, we are aware that the simple semantic search does not scale to 
75.000 triples per relation ;-). Also, it is fun to do real semantic queries 
on Wikipedia, and we might make the test server public when it is 
sufficiently stable.

Of course, we are also planning own implementation work. On my part, this 
especially includes the inclusion of all the patches that were submitted 
since our last release. As long as a patch does not jeopardise stability or 
conflicts with planned implementations, it should be included before the next 
release.


So thanks to all users and contributors for the continued support, and please 
bear with us if we are not overly responsive towards email requests at the 
moment.

Cheers,

Markus

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Markus Krötzsch
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]        phone +49 (0)721 608 7362
www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/     fax +49 (0)721 693  717

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