From: cnit <cn...@un...> - 2007-12-30 09:54:52
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> I'm not sure if restricting Ask functionality is along the lines of > Wikipedia policies - it's not a modification operation therefore it should > be public, I believe. Sure, but my MW sites aren't wikipedia. Also, imagine how much resourse intensive would it be on the huge datasets with lots of properties and property values defined. > I agree, that abuse bocking and request throttling might be a solution here, > but in general, I wouldn't recommend restriction of access, but a > functionality instead, e.g. limited amount of joins or something like that. Maybe you're right. It would be nice to have the settings mentioned by Markus $smwgQSubpropertyDepth, $smwgQEqualitySupport separately for anonymous and the rest of the users. The problem is, that such queries might be unavailable sometimes. > This kind of actions is generally hard to limit and predict therefore it's > quite easy to abuse. This might be a serious bottleneck in SMW adoption by > Wikipedia. Dmitriy |