Re: [Wikidata-l] How are queries doing?

2013-11-29 Thread Jan Kučera
Ok. One is a bit disappointed seeing various projects to fail to deliver according to their original timelines... seems like there is not enough money in? Do you need more developers to perform better? 2013/11/26 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:55 PM,

Re: [Wikidata-l] How are queries doing?

2013-11-29 Thread Martynas Jusevičius
Jan, my suspicion is that my predictions from last year hold true: it is a far more complex task to design a scalable and performant data model, query language and/or query engine solely for Wikidata than the designers of this project anticipated - unless they did anticipate and now knowingly

Re: [Wikidata-l] How are queries doing?

2013-11-29 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Please understand that providing functionality like query is something that has to fit into a continuously live environment. This is an environment where the Wikidata functionality is used all the time and where some of the underlying functionality is changed as well. The Wikidata development

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata Weekly Summary #86

2013-11-29 Thread John Lewis
Good day all, This weeks summary is now available for you all to read. This week includes a large amount of RfC closures you all may wish to read up on as well as a blog about Wikidata. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_11_29 Also, this weeks summary was pushed using

[Wikidata-l] Need help of Python developers

2013-11-29 Thread Alex Peek
We are looking for a python developer to create bots for uploading economic statistics into Wikidata. Economic data is usually from non-controversial sources such as the World Bank, IMF and other government sources. Statistics include GDP, GDP by industry, employment by industry, government