Indeed, having WikiData Query Service (WDQS) responsibility under a
separate sub-organization as known as the 'Search Platform' is
mischief.

Le lun. 10 févr. 2020 à 15:55, Gerard Meijssen
<[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> Hoi,
> In my opinion, Wikidata is a flagship project of the Wikimedia Foundation. 
> With the current underperformance vis a vis demand, it is not only a 
> technical question what to do, it is also an organisational issue.
>
> As I have written in several blogposts, the current underperformance affects  
> the projects using Wikidata as its infra structure. What is the official 
> response to the underachievement of a key and strategic resource.
> thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2020/02/dear-krmaher-wikipedia-is-not-flagship.html
>
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 19:01, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know if this is helpful, as I'm not very familiar with
>> Wikidata's infrastructure, but I think that an idea that was discussed
>> in the Wikimedia Strategy 2030 process is charging real money to
>> organizations that consume large amounts of data from the Wikimedia
>> API. By extension, an idea to consider is charging real money to
>> consumers that want use Wikidata services in resource intensive ways.
>> That would have several potential benefits. Charging money for
>> resource intensive requests could make consumers be more value
>> conscious when deciding which queries to run, it would probably reduce
>> the workload on WMF's end, the reduced workload on WMF's end could
>> lead to faster performance, and the money could be used for the
>> maintenance and/or upgrade of Wikidata services. I think that offering
>> free services to consumers who are not making resource intensive
>> requests is good, but I am also fine with charging real money for
>> resource intensive requests by consumers. For anyone who wants to make
>> a resource intensive request and is unwilling or unable to pay
>> accordingly, an option is to put them into a "slow lane" where there
>> requests will be fulfilled but at a slower pace than paid resource
>> intensive requests will be fulfilled.
>>
>> Pine
>> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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