Commons:SPARQL query service/WCQSbeta2-release-reminder

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Hi everyone,

This is a reminder that the next major release of Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) is scheduled for 1 Feb, 2022, as was previously announced. Since then, many of you have taken the time to raise concerns, questions, and other valuable feedback, and we thank you for your ongoing efforts.

To reflect the conversations we had around authentication in this WCQS release, we have decided that it will be a second beta release, which I will officially refer to as WCQS beta 2. While we will be moving forward with authentication for WCQS beta 2 in order to provide the Search team with the necessary tools to maintain a reliable service, calling it a second beta acknowledges that the conversation around authentication around WCQS, WDQS, and/or other WMF products and properties is an ongoing conversation. We hope that the further conversations can lead to a better future solution for a full production service that both reflects the values and vision of this project, as well as the ability to keep it running in a stable and scalable way.

Besides authentication, the WCQS beta 2 release focuses primarily on moving WCQS to better infrastructure – from a single instance to 3 instances per data center – with additional Streaming Updater support. All together, this will make WCQS more resilient to outages, as a single instance going down will not take down the whole service, and allow more frequent updates: from weekly updates to real-time updates. Our SLO for update lag is to have <10 min update lag 99% of the time, which will be visible here (note that there is no data to report yet). For more detail, please refer to our previous announcement.

Starting 1 Feb 2022. WCQS beta 2 will be available at https://commons-query.wikimedia.org/. The current URL will continue to be available for a month, after which requests will be redirected to the new URL starting 1 March 2022.

Thanks again to everyone for your continued patience, feedback, and contributions throughout this new release! MPham (WMF) (talk) 17:43, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:SPARQL_query_service/WCQSbeta2-release-reminder&oldid=624739693"