Hey everyone, On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 9:42 PM Ed Summers <[email protected]> wrote: > First, I just wanted to say it is *awesome* to see this level of > transparency and clarity about the state of the service. +1. Really glad that we're hearing about this now, before the problem becomes so seriously that measures are taken without informing the community beforehand.
> 2. The Query service is open to the public, with no authentication, > which means the Wikidata team have very little idea who/what depends on > the service. > > For 2 I wonder if it might make sense to start requiring registration & > authentication? Or is this not the wiki way? Right now, the Wikimedia Commons Query Service (in beta) is doing something like that. You need to login and authenticate before you can use it. I'm not sure if there have been any insights on the points you mention (who uses it in what capacity). But if i'm reading Mike's original email i think the main problem is inputting the ever growing graph of data into Blazegraph, not people (ab)using the query service in such a capacity that it doesn't scale. I understand that perhaps it would make sense to add some kind of authentication layer, but it would be a shame. The Wikimedia projects API's (i'm sharing the query service among those) are one of the very few large-scale API's with useful data that don't need any kind of authentication. Making it really useful to teach to students or people just dabbling in writing software. Kind regards, -- Hay / Husky _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
