Re: [Wikidata-l] question about Inclusion policy discussion

2013-03-15 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
a systematicaly structured information. Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:50:02 +0100 From: psychosl...@culture-libre.org To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] question about Inclusion policy discussion Le 2013-03-14 02:09, Michael Hale a écrit : I think of Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata-l] question about Inclusion policy discussion

2013-03-14 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-03-14 02:09, Michael Hale a écrit : I think of Wikidata as the symbiotic version of Freebase. I won't say Freebase is a parasite, but I think a core aspect of Wikidata is that edits to the database will often feed back into the encyclopedia in various places. I haven't looked too much at

Re: [Wikidata-l] question about Inclusion policy discussion

2013-03-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
That is a tough question. We are pretty sure that we technically scale quite well, and there is no reason that the community should restrict itself out of technical reasons. If the number of item suddenly increases by one or two orders of magnitudes, we would probably meet a few hiccups on the

Re: [Wikidata-l] question about Inclusion policy discussion

2013-03-13 Thread Michael Hale
yet, but databases with billions of items aren't that rare anymore. Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:51:47 -0700 From: ben.mcgee.g...@gmail.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikidata-l] question about Inclusion policy discussion I've been struggling to understand what should go