Thread:User talk:Jeroen De Dauw/SoC 2012/reply (2)

Jeroen,

Thanks for the very positive feedback! I'm in no way capable of undertaking the work myself as part of GSoC; my PHP knowledge is basic, and not improving at a particularly rapid rate. Since I started earning a living in IT about 25 years ago, a lot has changed and I've not kept up with everything.

I'll chase up on your suggested contacts/improvements to my 'vague scribblings'. On reflection, they're quite well-constructed for something done in a hurry between the hours of 01:00 and 05:30. My general hope is that someone will have a Eureka! moment and propose an implementable solution by looking at the issues with a fresh set of eyes.

I'll go bug Ryan, and take a look at the WMDE stuff; I really hope some of the Semantic MediaWiki features can be ported to the main codebase - even as extensions. To me, at least, it looks like a substantial amount of the code therein would kill off something I saw at countless customer sites I worked at all over Europe. Namely, abandoned SharePoint implementations which companies had written-off tens, sometimes hundreds, of thousands of Euro of investment in.

Cheers!