Hi, and thanks for working on this!

My subjective view:
* We don't need P2860/P1433 indexed, at least not at the moment
* I would really like dates (mainly, born/died), especially if they work
for "greater units", that is, I search for a year and get an item back,
even though the statament is month- or day-precise

Cheers,
Magnus

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:48 PM Stas Malyshev <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Today we are indexing in ElasticSearch almost all string properties
> (except a few) and select item properties (P31 and P279). We've been
> asked to extend this set and index more item properties
> (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199884). We did not do it from the
> start because we did not want to add too much data to the index at once,
> and wanted to see how the index behaves. To evaluate what this change
> would mean, some statistics:
>
> All usage of item properties in statements is about 231 million uses
> (according to sqid tool database). Of those, about 50M uses are
> "instance of" which we are already indexing. Another 98M uses belong to
> two properties - published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). Leaving about
> 86M for the rest of the properties.
>
> So, if we index all the item properties except P2860 and P1433, we'll be
> a little more than doubling the amount of data we're storing for this
> field, which seems OK. But if we index those too, we'll be essentially
> quadrupling it - which may be OK too, but is bigger jump and one that
> may potentially cause some issues.
>
> So, we have two questions:
> 1. Do we want to enable indexing for all item properties? Note that if
> you just want to find items with certain statement values, Wikidata
> Query Service matches this use case best. It's only in combination with
> actual fulltext search where on-wiki search is better.
>
> 2. Do we need to index P2860 and P1433 at all, and if so, would it be ok
> if we omit indexing for now?
>
> Would be glad to hear thoughts on the matter.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Stas Malyshev
> [email protected]
>
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