OK, thanks for your reply. We will watch for new developments and incorporate them into our work as they are ready.
Keep up the good work on this important project! -Ben On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected] > wrote: > Am 13.09.2013 18:24, schrieb Benjamin Good: > > Daniel, > > > > Even 500 seems like a very low limit for this system unless I'm > > misunderstanding something. Unless there is another way to execute > queries > > that return more rows than that, this would negate the possibility of a > > huge number of applications - all of ours in particular. If we want to > > say, request something like "all human genes" (about 20,000 items), how > > would we do that? > > You are looking for actual *query* support, not just a "search by name". > This is > on the road map, and I hope we will be able to deploy it by the end of the > year. > But it's not possible yet. > > Supporting queries like "all people born in hamburg" or "all cities in > europe" > is an obvious goal for wikidata. And we are working on it, but it's not > trivial > to make this scale to the number of entries, queries and different > properties we > are dealing with. > > > Within Wikipedia, we do this via the mediawiki API based on > > contains-template or category queries without any issue. Certainly > > wikidata will be more useful for queries than raw mediawiki??? > > See above. > > > I'm certain I am missing something, please clarify. > > > > This is currently standing in the way of our GSoC student completing his > > summer project - due next week. A little disappointing for him.. > > Sorry, but we have never hidden the fact that our query interface is not > ready > yet. wbsearchentities is a label lookup designed for find-as-you-type > suggestions. It's not a query interface, and was never supposed to be. > > I understand the disappointment, but there is little we can do about this > now. > > All I can suggest is working from a dump right now (and sadly, we only have > mediawiki's raw json-in-xml dumps at the moment. I'm working on native > JSON and > RDF dumps, but they are not ready). > > -- daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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