Wikipedia talk:Link intersection

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This proposal is still under construction. Feel free to jump in. -- Samuel Wantman 10:03, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Two things to think about... first, probably not all links are meant as tags; and second, this would likely incur the same performance hit that prevents category intersection from working on enwiki. But yes, better-searchable metadata or tags would be an improvement. >Radiant< 07:48, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A question on technology

About the problem of boolean functions in categories (Canadian films + Drama films = Canadian drama films): Is it really a software limitation, or a problem of server load? Has anyone researched the consequences in terms of server load? Hoverfish Talk 05:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

There has been some research on category intersection in regard to the server load, and there would be a problem if the largest categories are intersected. I think there are ways around this problem, and in discussions with User:Rick Block and User:Radiant! we identified some ways to limit the impact on the servers. As for the wikilinks, there are some articles that have a truly huge number pages that link to it. I believe the record is held by United States which has hundreds of thousands. The resulting server load problem could be easily dealt with by the software. One possibility is to just gray out any link that is too big. If you can't choose "United States", you might be able to choose Albany, New York. A better way would to analyze the request and reject those that might cause too much server load. There shouldn't be a problem intersecting links if at least one of them is small. This speeds up the process since only the small set has to be checked for membership in the hugely large set. This, I would think, would normally be the case with link intersection. -- Samuel Wantman 06:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)