Re: [Wikidata-l] Query generator spreadsheet

2015-03-18 Thread Navino Evans
://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:WDQ 2015-03-09 22:03 GMT+01:00 Navino Evans nav...@histropedia.com: Hi all, We've been using WDQ queries a lot recently to update timelines in the Histropedia directory and, while trying to speed up the process, I ended up creating a very crude query generator tool

Re: [Wikidata-l] Query generator spreadsheet

2015-03-10 Thread Navino Evans
://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk On 9 March 2015 at 21:42, Navino Evans nav...@histropedia.com wrote: Many thanks Markus :-) The plan for us now is to get our developer to start making some of these 'query modules', and publish them as open source. They would be use-able as a stand-alone tool, but more

Re: [Wikidata-l] Query generator spreadsheet

2015-03-10 Thread Navino Evans
That's good to know. Looking forward to playing around with it when there's a test server up and running. Best, Navino On 10 March 2015 at 13:28, Markus Kroetzsch markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de wrote: On 10.03.2015 14:15, Navino Evans wrote: Cheers Fabian, Magnus! Just had a quick look

Re: [Wikidata-l] Query generator spreadsheet

2015-03-09 Thread Navino Evans
...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: Awesome work :-). I love your use of Google Docs as a UI prototyping tool. We could really use a few more special-purpose querying tools. Markus On 09.03.2015 22:03, Navino Evans wrote: Hi all, We've been using WDQ queries a lot recently to update timelines

[Wikidata-l] Query generator spreadsheet

2015-03-09 Thread Navino Evans
Hi all, We've been using WDQ queries a lot recently to update timelines in the Histropedia directory and, while trying to speed up the process, I ended up creating a very crude query generator tool over the weekend. After getting a bit carried away with it, it seemed worth sharing as it could

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData for Research Project Idea: Structured History

2014-12-31 Thread Navino Evans
Thanks for sharing those links Susanna :) really fascinating to find out about the related projects and discussions. I'll join in to any discussions about this on Wikidata - it's very relevant to the long term goals of Histropedia http://www.histropedia.com/ (interactive timeline powered by

Re: [Wikidata-l] statements on properties are live (+deletion propagation)

2014-12-03 Thread Navino Evans
That's fantastic news! :) Just curious... when statements linking to other properties has been implemented, will that include the ability to start defining a class tree for the properties? It would be amazing if you could one day run queries like all items with any subclass of location set to