* Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> [Thu, 12 May 2011 11:52:20 +0200]: > Hoi, > Templates are waiting for the kill. They are hard to use. They are > horrible > to maintain. Semantic MediaWiki is something that I do and can > understand. > > I do agree that a kill is called for and it is those horrid templates. Templates are powerful and useful. Though I agree that syntax could be better: large amount of nested curly braces are poorly readable. However, it is amazing what could be achieved with these, for example look at templates / edits of User:Patrick at meta.
I like SMW, too. I use it for a small project right now, after a break of more than a year. They have implemented handy #set and #declare functions these days, better ways to store records (structured data) and so on (I still haven't checked everything). Current major rewrite should improve the performance using dedicated triple stores, instead of MySQL backend. Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
