On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Sergey Chernyshev wrote: > My point is that SMW's mission statement is to create Semantic Wikipedia - > that's why I'm saying this. Or am I wrong?
Indeed, but we also support other use-cases (some of our features obviously do not address Wikipedia needs). And, regarding Ask-restrictions: a major Wikipedia policy certainly is to keep the servers up ;-) Just recall the times when even text-search was disabled for performance reasons. So restricting Special:Ask could also server WP, but I do not plan to work on this soon. Markus > > Sergey > > On Dec 30, 2007 4:54 AM, cnit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure if restricting Ask functionality is along the lines of > > > Wikipedia policies - it's not a modification operation therefore it > > > > should > > > > > be public, I believe. > > > > Sure, but my MW sites aren't wikipedia. Also, imagine how much resourse > > intensive would it be on the huge datasets with lots of properties and > > property values defined. > > > > > I agree, that abuse bocking and request throttling might be a solution > > > > here, > > > > > but in general, I wouldn't recommend restriction of access, but a > > > functionality instead, e.g. limited amount of joins or something like > > > > that. > > Maybe you're right. It would be nice to have the settings mentioned by > > Markus > > $smwgQSubpropertyDepth, $smwgQEqualitySupport > > separately for anonymous and the rest of the users. The problem is, that > > such queries might be unavailable sometimes. > > > > > This kind of actions is generally hard to limit and predict therefore > > > > it's > > > > > quite easy to abuse. This might be a serious bottleneck in SMW adoption > > > > by > > > > > Wikipedia. > > > > Dmitriy > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > > Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel -- Markus Krötzsch Institut AIFB, Universät Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 fax +49 (0)721 608 5998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www http://korrekt.org
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