Wikidata talk:Main Page/Archive/2012/12

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Thoughts on the news

Am I alone in thinking that Q400000 should be removed? For me, the point of posting milestones is not to give kudos to individual items (if it was, we should have posted the number of the beast), but to emphasise Wikidata's rate of growth. This, in my opinion, would be best achieved through 250k, 500k, 750k and 1M – the rate at which items are being created is still accelerating, and this would be bourne out in the decreased gaps between each milestone.

Hopefully we will start getting some non-Q news over the coming couple of months. For instance, Hungarian deployment + them starting to use the Wikidata language links, phase two being launched, Hebrew deployment (followed by English and full rollout), the first set of admin reconfirmations, data-related milestones and so forth. —WFC— 11:51, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

I agree. Maybe we could try something like this for the milestones. It is only a draft. Let me know your opinions, and we could move my subpage to another place. --Stryn (talk) 12:26, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Agreed, 400,000 items isn't a milestone. –sumone10154(talk) 21:41, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
That's regular news business. Nobody is saying that 400,000 items is a milestone, but if there are no other news (like Hungarian deployment) it's the most important news we've got. Probably this is more relevant stuff. --Kolja21 (talk) 22:05, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Milestone straw poll

What's done is done, but moving forward, can I pre-emptively suggest that Q750000 and Q1000000 be our next milestones? Assuming that we carry on at the same rate as the past few days, we would create Q750000 on approximately 11th/12th December, and Q1000000 roughly a week before Christmas. If the rate of growth accelerates, we would post them even sooner. Given where we are with development, there are likely to be one or two non-Q pieces of news in that time period anyway. —WFC— 11:32, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

  1.  Support as proposer. —WFC— 11:32, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
  2. I think we should go straight from 500k to 1 million, similar to going from 50k to 100k. It's not a milestone if the article count goes up 50% in five days. --- Ypnypn (talk) 16:32, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
  3.  Support --Bene* (talk) 16:58, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
  4.  Support —Theopolisme 22:33, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
  5.  Support Seeing as we've already surpassed 600,000 only 30 or so hours after 500,000 I believe the milestones do need to be further spaced out. After 1 million it should be 1.5 million, then 2 million etc. Del♉sion23 (talk) 19:25, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Milestone straw poll 2

Per Delusion23's suggestion above, I propose that we add milestones after every 500,000 entries from now on (Q1500000, Q2000000 etc). —WFC— 02:07, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

  1.  Support —WFC— 02:07, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
  2.  Support Restu20 02:24, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
  3.  Support, but after 2.5 million or something like that we should switch to once every million.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:39, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
  4.  Support per Jasper Deng. --Stryn (talk) 09:06, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
  5.  Support Jasper's proposal. 68.84.47.109 (talk) 18:10, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

New translation

If an administrator could complete this wish, that would be cool. Njardarlogar (talk) 16:27, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Stryn (talk) 16:29, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
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