On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hoi, > > At this moment Wikipedia "red links" provide no information whatsoever. > This is not cool. > > In Wikidata we often have labels for the missing (=red link) articles. We > can and do provide information from Wikidata in a reasonable way that is > informative in the "Reasonator". We also provide additional search > information on many Wikipedias. > > In the Reasonator we have now implemented "red lines" [1]. They indicate > when a label does not exist in the primary language that is in use. > > What we are considering is creating a template {{Reasonator}} that will > present information based on what is available in Wikidata. Such a template > would be a stand in until an article is actually written. What we would > provide is information that is presented in the same way as we provide it > as this moment in time [2] > > This may open up a box of worms; Reasonator is NOT using any caching. There > may be lots of other reasons why you might think this proposal is evil. All > the evil that is technical has some merit but, you have to consider that > the other side of the equation is that we are not "sharing in the sum of > all knowledge" even when we have much of the missing requested information > available to us. > > One saving (technical) grace, Reasonator loads round about as quickly as > WIkidata does. > > As this is advance warning, I hope that you can help with the issues that > will come about. I hope that you will consider the impact this will have on > our traffic and measure to what extend it grows our data. > > The Reasonator pages will not show up prettily on mobile phones .. so does > Wikidata by the way. It does not consider Wikipedia zero. There may be more > issues that may require attention. But again, it beats not serving the > information that we have to those that are requesting it. > I have a strong feeling you're going to bring labs to its knees. Sending editors to labs is one thing, but you're proposing sending readers to labs, to a service that isn't cached. If reasonator is something we want to support for something like this, maybe we should consider turning it into a production service? - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>