I dont have a clue what u are talking about? I wish I did! Are u sure u have the right person? How did u get my email address?
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 11:02 PM Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > The performance of the query update is getting worse. Questions about this > have been raised before. I do remember quality replies like it is not > exponential so there is no problem. However, here we are and there is a > problem. > > The problem is that I run batch jobs, batch jobs that do not run [1]. I > have the impression that they are put in some kind of suspended animation > by a person. These jobs are submitted by the SourceMD tool by Magnus, > Magnus is well known for being responsive to suggestions on how he can > improve them. So do not use as an argument that there is something wrong > with these job. At most it is acceptable for these run to put on some kind > of hold for the duration of a crisis and then there has to be a release. > > At the same time I notice that the reports indicating multiple items with > the same ORCiD id include items that should have been picked up by earlier > reports. I notice that query does not pick up existing items with an ORCid > id and creates new ones. For me this is an indication that Query is not > reliable. > > There is talk on the Wiki that there is no point in having fixed > descriptions in anything but English. What caused this discussion is the > sheer amount of updates needed just for one language. At the London > Wikimania this perceived need for fixed descriptions was discussed vis a > vis automated descriptions and as I recall the only argument for having > them at all was "standards" in relation to dumps. Yes, automated > descriptions may be cached and included in a dump. > > I have been asked to write for the ORCiD blog and thereby in effect plug > the relevance of the Scholia presentation for scientists. When I do, the > number of jobs like the ones I run will mushroom. It is why I have not put > anything forward so far because we cannot cope as it is. > > The issues I see is, > * again to what extend can we grow our content, both for query and update > for the short medium and long term > * will batch jobs like mine be able to complete > * can we ingest the attention when scholars discover how relevant Scholia > is for them, the subject they care for. > * do we care that motivation of volunteers relies on the availability of > sufficient performance to do the tasks they care for. > > Thanks, > Gerard > > > > > > [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/sourcemd/?action=batches&user=GerardM > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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