Hoi,
In my opinion, Wikidata is a flagship project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
With the current underperformance vis a vis demand, it is not only a
technical question what to do, it is also an organisational issue.
As I have written in several blogposts, the current underperformance
affects the projects using Wikidata as its infra structure. What is the
official response to the underachievement of a key and strategic resource.
thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2020/02/dear-krmaher-wikipedia-is-not-flagship.html
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 19:01, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this is helpful, as I'm not very familiar with
> Wikidata's infrastructure, but I think that an idea that was discussed
> in the Wikimedia Strategy 2030 process is charging real money to
> organizations that consume large amounts of data from the Wikimedia
> API. By extension, an idea to consider is charging real money to
> consumers that want use Wikidata services in resource intensive ways.
> That would have several potential benefits. Charging money for
> resource intensive requests could make consumers be more value
> conscious when deciding which queries to run, it would probably reduce
> the workload on WMF's end, the reduced workload on WMF's end could
> lead to faster performance, and the money could be used for the
> maintenance and/or upgrade of Wikidata services. I think that offering
> free services to consumers who are not making resource intensive
> requests is good, but I am also fine with charging real money for
> resource intensive requests by consumers. For anyone who wants to make
> a resource intensive request and is unwilling or unable to pay
> accordingly, an option is to put them into a "slow lane" where there
> requests will be fulfilled but at a slower pace than paid resource
> intensive requests will be fulfilled.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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