User talk:Skierpage

Type:Page for large sets?
Hi, the semantic mediawiki docs recommend that type:page not be used for properties "If the possible values of the property are a large set". We currently have 10 or 20 thousand genealogy person articles and will likely have hundreds of thousands of articles when we start bulk upload of genealogical data files.


 * Here is an prototype SMW article: George Geer.


 * So what I am asking is, are there any documents you can point me to that discuss the performance considerations, or is a couple hundred thousand no problem? When does it get to be a problem?  Does it become an issue when we get into the 10s of millions?   (Genealogy info is ummm immense by Wikipedia standards).


 * I really don't want to get to 50K articles and find out I have to refactor the entire site because the wikia servers are melting.... - ~  Ph l o x  20:35, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Heh, I can't find the original history of that documentation in all the migration between ontoworld.org, sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org and semantic-mediawiki.org, so I'm not sure if I wrote those words or not. SMW has had a newer faster backend for a while (since version 1.2), so the caution probably no longer applies. If you want further reassurance, ask on the semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, see http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=147937. Using SMW for genealogy seems a great fit. -- 76.14.63.138 20:06, 17 May 2009 (UTC)