This is AMAZING. A massive thank you! ❤❤❤

Mike Pham <mp...@wikimedia.org> schrieb am Di., 19. Okt. 2021, 18:53:

> Hi all,
>
> I’m excited to announce that the WMF Search team has just shipped the new
> Streaming Updater for Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), with the final
> server’s data transfer completing earlier today (19 Oct) — a little ahead
> of (the revised) schedule!
>
> You may know WDQS as a way of querying information from Wikidata. In order
> to this, WDQS ingests data, particularly edit updates, from Wikidata to
> construct and maintain a massive knowledge graph. Wikidata has grown over
> the years in size and usage, and WDQS had started becoming a bottleneck,
> which created update lag.
>
> The new Streaming Updater allows WDQS to go from an average of 10
> edits/second to an average of 88 edits/second – almost a 900% increase in
> our ability to make sure that we can provide a more up to date knowledge
> graph, as well as a more stable and reliable update process.
>
> For more information about some of the technical changes that could break
> existing workflows and usage, see this earlier announcement
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2021/03#New_WDQS_Streaming_Updater_now_available_on_pre-production_test_server_for_feedback>
> .
>
> Big thanks and congratulations to the Search team, WMDE, and everyone else
> involved for making this happen!
>
> “It’s absolutely insane how fast the new streaming updater catches up on
> lag
> very exciting” – Ryan Kemper
>
> Best,
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> —
>
> *Mike Pham* (he/him)
> Sr Product Manager, Search
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
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