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 ) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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