On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:16 PM, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > An aditional note. > > The problem is that a community can handle a quite specific workload. Some > of that goes into producing new articles, some goes into patrolling. Some > goes into maintenance of existing articles. When a project has to much > dynamic content (and it will always have some dynamic content) they start to > move into a maintenance mode, because they are swamped by the dynamic > content. > > A typical indication that something is going on is that the patrol log > starts to overflow. Another is that the production of new articles starts to > drop, but that will drop anyhow because of addition of new content to old > articles.[1] To get good numbers we need the factor "new content"/"edited > old content". When that number start to drop then we know that the community > starts to run into problems.
Agreed. > If we had unlimited sources, then we could add more workload, but we don't > have unlimited sources (aka manhours). The community is limited. Adding new > work to the existing will thus not scale very well, if at all. We need ways > to cope with the existing workload, not additional work. > > In short; nice thesis, but even if it can be _implemented_ it will not scale > on Wikipedia. > > And of course, someone will surly claim that we could just just get some > more members in the community. Yes, sure, some of us has been working on > that for several years.[2] I think you are misreading some of the text. One of the core ideas of Wikidata is to share workload across Wikipedias. The concept Charlie worked on is a step to help more with that. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
