Forum:Upgraded Semantic MediaWiki

I'm pleased to inform this community that Semantic MediaWiki has been upgraded to 1.8 and, as of this morning, switched over to the new storage system (SMWStore3) that came in that release. You should not notice any changes, but this code was upgraded for two core reasons.

First, SMW1.8 introduced a number of bug fixes that should help solve a number of issues larger SMW wikias on our network have reported. Secondly, the new storage system is less technically expensive than previous iterations. I think many of the admins know from experience that SMW on this site in particular can often bog down our network traffic as a whole. But SMWStore3 often reduces the rendering speed by at least 50%. For instance, let's look at one of your heaviest pages. Neo-Spacian Dark Panther is a huge page whose average parse time was 17 seconds. After the upgrade, we've calculated the average parse time to 4.8 seconds. This is a huge win for both this community (faster site = happier users + better SEO) and for us (less technical concerns).

If you see anything strange with Semantic data on this site, please let me know either through this forum post or through Special:Contact. Thanks! --DaNASCAT (help forum | blog) 14:21, March 9, 2015 (UTC)