On 1/29/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Hee hee, I'm thinking I should take a couple weeks
of wikicommonsbreak
right about now! But seriously, what you're talking about will stir up a
large percentage of the commons people who obsess over categories. I'm
not even sure having category intersections in the software will satisfy
some of these folks - they go on about server loads and the like as
well. I'd suggest just bringing up the issue and watching the fur fly,
before deciding to invest time in rewriting anything...
:) But the fun is just beginning! :)
As far as load goes, it's only a question of implementation.
A few months back I posted some example performance data for
intersections using inverted indexing using the actual enwiki category
data:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2006-September/026715.h…
Even the most evil cases (intersecting two huge categories) ran very
quickly. (For example the intersection of GFDL images and
living_persons each which has over 100,000 members took 25ms).
The technical obstacle of getting the software implemented is far
smaller than the data quality issues we have.