Semantic MediaWiki is great! Is it ever going to end up on Wikipedia?
Being able to encode data, like infobox data, on Wikipedia, would open up an array of interesting opportunities for querying what is already one of the world’s most important sources of data. In fact, the dream of a “semantic Wikipedia” was what originally inspired the creation of Semantic MediaWiki, and continues to motivate some of its developers. Semantic MediaWiki as a concept is already familiar to most of the core developers of MediaWiki, and some have expressed great enthusiasm for it (see 21:18 – 22:44 of this video, for instance). There are various roadblocks to getting the software onto Wikipedia, though; the single greatest one is fear about its impact on the site’s performance. The Wikimedia Foundation has general plans to do its own performance testing, and code review, of SMW, at an unknown date in the future. It should be noted that “Wikipedia” is actually an umbrella term for many different language Wikipedias, each with its own community, who have some autonomy over wh
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