Fuzheado added a comment.
In T290300#7349048 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290300#7349048>, @Zbyszko wrote: > On the other hand, we have been affected by this greatly, when maintaining that service - we don't have an effective way to block or limit users that cause or contribute to issues with the service stability. We made the decision to use an authentication in WCQS so that we won't have the same limitation with another service we maintain. I think this will help us as a team do a better job of keeping WCQS running smoothly. I share the concerns of @LucasWerkmeister here - we've come so far to finally spend the time to model and add statements to Commons (huzzah!) and we finally have a usable query service for it (huzzah!) and then for the last mile, we're restricting access to it by instituting authentication? For a community that has "open by default" as an ethos, it feels like such an "own goal" misstep here. I'm thinking about the number of tools, scripts, and utilities that utilize SPARQL queries via Wikidata/WDQS that have given us tremendous capabilities... and the same approach or set of activities cannot be realized for WCQS because of this constraint. We cannot underestimate the headache of having to implement OAuth2 for each and every SPARQL query. I'm also puzzled how a service that has not even launched yet has to be this closed when none of our other APIs and services have started this way. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290300 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Fuzheado Cc: Fuzheado, LucasWerkmeister, ttaylor, CBogen, Gehel, Aklapper, Zache, BPirkle, sdkim, hnowlan, RKemper, Zbyszko, Invadibot, MPhamWMF, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Namenlos314, Lahi, Gq86, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Jonas, Xmlizer, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, Mbch331
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