Am 10.12.2014 13:16, schrieb Ricordisamoa:
I'm against that, too. Relationships could be inferred by which properties are the most common on similar items, and by which pages have the highest ratio of common links.
Statistics-based heuristics could work for this, but they make it hard to do things explicitly. People are used to directly edit content, not to rely on vague heuristics to do roughly what they like.
I'm not saying that it shouldn't be done, I'm just saying that it would mean a departuere from the wiki principle of "everythign is editable, nothing is automatic".
Also, such an approach needs considerable database power and causes some operations & maintenance overhead. Doable, sure, but a cost to be considered. I know the WMF's budget sounds big, but compared to other operations that run a web site on this scale, it's rediculously low. There is little head room for stuff like this.
Again, not saying it shouldn't be done. Just saying it's not going to happen tomorrow, and there's quite a few things to consider.