Hey Denny! Awesome tool! It's so awesome, we are already wondering about how to handle the load this may generate.
As far as I can see, qlabel uses the wbgetentities API module. This has the advantage of allowing the labels for all relevant entities to be fetched with a single query, but it has the disadvantage of not being cacheable. If qlabel used the .../entity/Q12345.json URLs to get entity data, that would be covered by the web caches (squid/varnish). But it would mean one request per entity, and would also return the full entity data, not just the labels in one language. So, a lot more traffic. If this becomes big, we should probably offer a dedicated web interface for fetching labels of many entities in a given language, using nice, cacheable URLs. This would mean a new cache entry per language per combination of entities - potentially, a large number. However, the combination of entities requested is determiend by the page being localized - that is, all visitors of a given page in a given language would hit the same cache entry. That seems workable. Anyway, we are not there quite yet, just something to ponder :) -- daniel Am 01.04.2014 20:14, schrieb Denny Vrandečić: > I just published qLabel, an Open Source jQuery plugin that allows to annotate > HTML elements with Wikidata Q-IDs (or Freebase IDs, or, technically, with any > other Semantic Web / Linked Data URI), and then grabs the labels and displays > them in the selected language of the user. > > Put differently, it allows for the easy creation of multilingual structured > websites. And it is one more way in which Wikidata data can be used, by > anyone. > > Contributors and users are more than welcome! > > <http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/04/qlabel-multilingual-content-without.html> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
