What about monthly/dump-based aggregated property usage statistics? People would be able to check property trends or maybe subscribe to specific properties via rss.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de>wrote: > Am 08.01.2014 16:20, schrieb Thomas Douillard: > > Hi, a problem seems (not very surprisingly) to emerge into Wikidata : the > > managing of the evolution of how we do things on Wikidata. > > > > Properties are deleted, which made some consumer of the datas sometimes > a little > > frustrated they are not informed of that and could not take part of the > discussion. > > They are informed if they follow the relevant channels. There's no way to > inform > them if they don't. These channels can very likely be improved, yes. > > That being said: a property that is still widely used should very rarely be > deleted, if at all. Usually, properties would be phased out by replacing > them > with another property, and only then they get deleted. > > Of course, 3rd parties that rely on specific properties would still face > the > problem that the property they use is simply no longer used (that's the > actual > problem - whether it is deleted doesn't really matter, I think). > > So, the question is really: how should 3rd party users be notified in > changes of > policy and best practice regarding the usage and meaning of properties? > > That's an interesting question, one that doesn't have a technical solution > I can > see. > > -- daniel > > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Senior Software Developer > > Wikimedia Deutschland > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- Dimitris Kontokostas Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Research Group: http://aksw.org Homepage:http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas
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