Yes. Big data is neither the problem nor the solution here.
George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Jan 2, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 03/01/13 16:09, George Herbert wrote: >> Laugh all you want, but the best man at my wedding's scalable P2P in >> the cloud company was acquired by Adobe, then he was poached by Skype >> who were poached by Microsoft, and now he's a Very Senior Architect >> spending most of his time flying around the world to far-flung >> offices, architecting and implementing scalable P2P in the cloud. > > Flying sucks. Time spent flying should be a measure of failure, not > success. > > Anyway, I wouldn't go so far as to deny the existence of > petabyte-sized data sets, or to deny that some organisations derive > value from being able to pass them through CPUs in a reasonable amount > of time. I merely question the value of a mailing list post that says > "hey, big data, we should do that". > > Wikipedia's problems are obvious and severe: > > * Incivility by established users towards new users > * Capture of articles by self-appointed "owners" > * Sneaky vandalism and misinformation > > If you look at the comments section of any online news article about > Wikipedia, you will see these valid criticisms repeated over and over > as reasons why people have stopped contributing to Wikipedia or refuse > to start. The number of active (>5 edits/mo) contributors has declined > from 13000 in January 2007 to 5900 in October 2012. > > You don't need "big data" to see what needs to be done. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l