Since I am obviously bad at guessing what you mean, can you please
explicate what you mean with "replicate that functionality on Wikidata"?

Sorry, I am too dense to understand it.

What do you want to happen, explicitly?

I go to http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6573995 - how should it be different
from what it displays today?

Do you want the item pages to have the feature to directly embed query
results, instead of having a one-click distance to the actual query page
and its results?

Or is there more to it?




On Thu Mar 06 2014 at 3:10:44 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not saying that the results yielded by "Category:Books by Jean-Paul
> Sartre" or "Category:Books by J.R.R. Tolkien" are or should be the same as
> the result yielded by a corresponding Wikidata query, but the concepts they
> represent, they are the same. Ditto for lists.
> (As a further clarification, I didn't mention anything about changing
> Wikipedia categories or Wikipedia lists either.)
>
> My question was regarding the functionality of WD items associated with
> Wikipedia categories and Wikipedia lists.
> Conceptually those items represent (or can represent) queries.
> WDQ, the tool by Magnus, already can interpret certain statements as
> queries [1].
> Would it make sense to replicate that functionality on Wikidata?
>
> Cheers,
> Micru
>
> [1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=6573995
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> But that's simply not the case. The Category:Books by Jean-Paul Sartre
>> [1] or Category:Books by J.R.R. Tolkien [2} neither are a complete list of
>> books by those authors (e.g. Sartre's fictional books are missing,
>> Tolkien's non-fictional *and* Middle earth books are missing), nor are they
>> only including books by Tolkien (e.g. they also include templates and other
>> categories, which are likely not written by Sartre or Tolkien).
>>
>> If the plan is to change the way categories are used in Wikipedia and the
>> other Wikimedia wikis, I'd say this is a very different goal, but should be
>> discussed on those wikis.
>>
>>  List-articles often contain much more love and care than a Wikidata
>> query result will for a while. I don't think that replacing an article like
>> the list of books by David Foster Wallace [3] the List of US Presidents [4]
>> with a single simple query is a short-term goal.
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_by_Jean-Paul_Sartre
>> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_by_J._R._R._Tolkien
>> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_by_David_Foster_Wallace
>> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_Presidents
>>
>>
>> On Thu Mar 06 2014 at 1:49:54 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The point I wanted to make (following your example), is that the
>>> Wikidata Query "All novels by Douglas Adams" is equivalent to the item
>>> "Category:Novels by Douglas Adams" [1]. In other cases there will be even 3
>>> items representing the same information: the wd query, the category item,
>>> and a "list of..." item. So I'm just wondering if this complexity is really
>>> needed for structural/technical reasons.
>>>
>>> Maybe there is an easier way instead of linking to the wd query with a
>>> "category's main query" property?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Micru
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8687492
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Lydia Pintscher <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:01 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > I would like to make you aware of this RFC started by Gerard:
>>>> >
>>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Define_lists_on_both_%22Wikimedia_lists%22_and_%22Wikimedia_categories%22
>>>> >
>>>> > It is interesting because in the end, what is the difference between
>>>> a list,
>>>> > a category, and a query? Not much, really.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm curious to know if the approach taken with queries will be the
>>>> same as
>>>> > the WDQ
>>>> > http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=6573995
>>>> >
>>>> > Items like "List of..." or "Category:" would have some use, but the
>>>> > development notes don't state if this is the intended path
>>>> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries
>>>> >
>>>> > Any thoughts about it?
>>>>
>>>> I've been trying to understand the RfC 3 times now and still fail. So
>>>> I can't answer your questions unfortunately.
>>>>
>>>> The short and simplified version of how complex queries will work:
>>>> * someone defines a query on a page in a special query namespace (eg
>>>> "everything that has author = Douglas Adams")
>>>> * the result of the query is a list of items matching the query
>>>> * the Wikipedias can include the result of the query and visualize it
>>>> in certain ways on a page. (eg the wikitext of the article "List of
>>>> works by Douglas Adams" would have a call to include the query result
>>>> from Wikidata)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Lydia
>>>>
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