Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-7292165-20160324230139/@comment-1251315-20160325101803

I support this. Categories would be more easier to maintain and we wouldn't have to go through the problems of SMW (who cares about semantic data anyway?). I don't care if a bunch of random entries in an infobox are "annotated", I just want to view the information and have some way of navigating from one page to another: SMW does not do that in any way and I think it's better we replace the whole system from categories and ditch SMW for good.

A lot of the stuff that we use SMW for can be replicated using other systems, such as Arrays, Variables and DPL: I personally was able to create a near identical replica of this wiki's volume infobox using just DPL and Arrays for another wiki and it worked reasonably well (though we reverted back to a manual template for that one, the point stands).