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 ) _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
