I've been following the discussion over there, though I haven't gotten
involved (though it seems to have died down by now). A lot of the
resistance to SMW is part of a longstanding dislike, or at least lack of
understanding, of SMW among core MediaWiki developers; though as Niklas
points out, it does seem to have decreased this time around. Though the
fact that it's taken basically seven years for that shift to have occurred
is somewhat depressing. :) Actually, I think a lot of the shift can be
attributed to the efforts of just a few people: Ryan Lane at WMF
operations, and Niklas and Siebrand on the Translatewiki team.
My only other comment is about performance: someone on the wikitech-l
thread noted that Wikia has had performance problems with SMW on some of
their sites, which is true; but I've talked to the Wikia people, and I
think just about all of these issues can be traced to their use of Semantic
Drilldown. SD (an extension I wrote) is useful but can overload the
database if it's used indiscriminately on larger sites. I've given them
tips on how to reduce the performance impact of SD - I don't know if
they've taken any of them. But given that, I don't think the Wikia
experience, at least, applies to Wikitech or mediawiki.org.
-Yaron
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