On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Denny Vrandecic <[email protected]> wrote: > I was not talking about WIkipedia -- even though our scalability tests > suggest that it could work there, but it is hard to say in advance without > testing on the actual WMF server farm. I am merely talking about Wikisource, > and wondering if it could be used to solve the problems they have, right now.
The code still must undergo security review to be enabled on any Wikimedia site. As I said, we don't even have enough reviewers right now to review core code, let alone large new extensions, so it's really not likely in the near future. Even small extensions would probably have a hard time getting enabled right now. On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]> wrote: > Intersections probably are inefficient when someone needs a range search > between, let's say 1944 and 1965. SMW has probably right approach that > something sequental and numerical like date, mass, speed should not be a > Category but a Property.. Yes, that would be awkward to phrase in Lucene search. The point is, anyway, that enabling something like SMW (probably with fewer features) is orthogonal to RDFa/microdata/RDF support -- the extension could incidentally output RDF or whatnot, but it doesn't matter for internal use. > Also, it's a bit sad that so many toolserver tools are standalone and > are not a part of MediaWiki distribution. That tool should be a part of > Special:Search. Most toolserver tool authors just don't bother applying for commit access for whatever reason. Most tools also either perform badly and/or would need to be rewritten to meet coding standards. Toolserver roots routinely have to kill processes for using up unreasonable amounts of resources. > When comes to subcategories, I always wondered why they have to include > the name of parent category: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Books > The word "Books" is repeated many times through the nested categories, > although we already know these are the "Books". Because categories in MediaWiki form a directed graph, not a tree. Categories don't have a unique parent. Whether this is good or bad is debatable. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
