I imagine the federation of Wikibase instances becoming part of the solution:
https://addshore.com/2018/04/wikibase-of-wikibases/ Along those lines, I wonder if there is potential for Wikibase as a component in the W3C Solid project’s effort: https://www.w3.org/community/solid/wiki/Main_Page Jeff From: Wikidata <wikidata-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Andra Waagmeester <an...@micel.io> Reply-To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Friday, May 3, 2019 at 10:11 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [External] Re: [Wikidata] Are we ready for our future I agree it is not clear what is being discussed here. It is growing, but in (my opinion) in a positive way, i.e. being accepted as a viable knowledge graph. Regards, Andra On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 3:27 PM David Abián <davidab...@wikimedia.es<mailto:davidab...@wikimedia.es>> wrote: Hi! Indeed, Wikidata grows and will continue growing. But I don't see clearly what the purpose of this thread is. Is it to propose possible technical and financial improvements? Regards, David On 5/3/19 14:24, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Wikidata grows like mad. This is something we all experience in the > really bad response times we are suffering. It is so bad that people are > asked what kind of updates they are running because it makes a > difference in the lag times there are. > > Given that Wikidata is growing like a weed, it follows that there are > two issues. Technical - what is the maximum that the current approach > supports - how long will this last us. Fundamental - what funding is > available to sustain Wikidata. > > For the financial guys, growth like Wikidata is experiencing is not > something you can reliably forecast. As an organisation we have more > money than we need to spend, so there is no credible reason to be stingy. > > For the technical guys, consider our growth and plan for at least one > year. When the impression exists that the current architecture will not > scale beyond two years, start a project to future proof Wikidata. > > It will grow and the situation will get worse before it gets better. > Thanks, > GerardM > > PS I know about phabricator tickets, they do not give the answers to the > questions we need to address. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata> > -- David Abián _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata>
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