On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hm,
nice to read all the reasoning why queries are yet still not possible, but I
think we live in 2014 not and not 1914 actually... seems like the problem is
too small budget or bad management... can not really think of another
reason. How much do you think would it cost to make queries reality for
production at Wikidata?
Denny already answered you extensively so I will only add a bit:
* Money does not solve all problems ;-)
* Until earlier this week we were waiting for feedback from a database
specialist on our database schema for queries. We have this now so
things will continue to move forward again. Getting this feedback was
crucial to make sure queries can work on the scale we need them to.
* Current top priorities (in order of priority):
** Wikisource getting language links via Wikidata (currently planned for 14th)
** getting the first version of quantities live (current plan is to do
this on 21st),
** continue making performance improvements
** simple queries
Cheers
Lydia
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