Just FYI - I have proposed Wikidata to adjust their API to match the rest of the MW API - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikidata_API
Wikidata thinks that generally it's a good approach, but don't have any extra hands on deck to actually do it, and are looking for volunteers :) On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Mixter,Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to query the Wikidata api using the following action: > action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch. The query works but what I want > back as a result is human readable data about the entity. See below > results: > > > > https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=world%20war%20one&gsrlimit=10&prop=extracts&redirects=&format=json > > > I was expecting it to work that same a the wikipedia api. I can ask for > various properties from the Wikipedia page. See below: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=world%20war%20one&gsrlimit=10&prop=pageimages|pageprops|extracts&pilimit=max&exintro&explaintext&exsentences=5&exlimit=max&redirects= > <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=world%20war%20one&gsrlimit=10&prop=pageimages%7Cpageprops%7Cextracts&pilimit=max&exintro&explaintext&exsentences=5&exlimit=max&redirects> > > > So what I would expect is to get back human readable labels and > descriptions (when applicable) from the api (the same way you do with a > wbsearchentities query). I wanted to just use the wbsearchentities action > but the index seems to be acting odd (it looks like it is a prefix search > or something like that). > > > For example if I do a entity search for 'columbus' one of the results is > Columbus Ohio and the results include human readable strings: > > > > https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=columbus&language=en&type=item&format=json > > > But if I add Ohio to the search query the only result is for "Columbus > Ohio Temple". > > > > https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=columbus%20ohio&language=en&type=item&format=json > > > The issue that I am running into is that I am trying to match oddly > formatted entity labels (It's library authority data...) to entities in > Wikidata and I really do not want to do much string manipulation on the > original entity label. > > > Does anyone have any solutions or suggestions? > > > Thanks, > > Jeff Mixter > Software Engineer > OCLC Research > 614-761-5159 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >
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