What about monthly/dump-based aggregated property usage statistics?
People would be able to check property trends or maybe subscribe to
specific properties via rss.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Daniel Kinzler
<daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de>wrote;wrote:
Am 08.01.2014 16:20, schrieb Thomas Douillard:
Hi, a problem seems (not very surprisingly) to
emerge into Wikidata : the
managing of the evolution of how we do things on Wikidata.
Properties are deleted, which made some consumer of the datas sometimes
a little
frustrated they are not informed of that and
could not take part of the
discussion.
They are informed if they follow the relevant channels. There's no way to
inform
them if they don't. These channels can very likely be improved, yes.
That being said: a property that is still widely used should very rarely be
deleted, if at all. Usually, properties would be phased out by replacing
them
with another property, and only then they get deleted.
Of course, 3rd parties that rely on specific properties would still face
the
problem that the property they use is simply no longer used (that's the
actual
problem - whether it is deleted doesn't really matter, I think).
So, the question is really: how should 3rd party users be notified in
changes of
policy and best practice regarding the usage and meaning of properties?
That's an interesting question, one that doesn't have a technical solution
I can
see.
-- daniel
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