Jheald added a comment.
I very strongly agree with this ticket. It needs to be as easy as possible for query-service users to find queries that illustrate "how do I do this?" A very long time ago, I created this page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries> of SPARQL query examples. Since that time, many introductions to SPARQL that are //far// better have been written. Also, the style of the example queries on that page is often not good (more meaningful variable names would be better, etc); some of the queries could be better written, or may no longer even work due to time-outs now that Wikidata is so much bigger; some of the pages aren't inline on the page, which they should be; some of the most important topics are missing; and, most seriously, too many of the queries are frankly dull - far more interesting (less maintenance orientated) examples could be chosen. So it's not a great page, and could be hugely improved (and extended -- eg more illustrative queries for using the API, doing federation, combining with category data, drawing on maps, etc, etc, etc) But I do think the // format // of the page is useful, presenting queries to illustrate SPARQL / WDQS feature by feature. Indeed I have a bookmark to it in my browser bar, and regularly go back to it, whenever I need to remember how to do something that's not in the every day. So I do think an updated new page in this form (perhaps expanding to a series of pages, for additional further advanced features) would be extremely useful; and, once created, would be something very helpful to make as accessible as possible. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236611 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jheald Cc: Jheald, Aklapper, LucasWerkmeister, Harmonia_Amanda, reosarevok, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Jonas, Xmlizer, jkroll, Smalyshev, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, Mbch331
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