Hi Ben, On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Benjamin Good <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently introduced wikidata to a (very computationally savvy) colleague > by sending him this link: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q423111 > > His response is indicative of an interface problem that I think is actually > very important: > "Is there a simple way to get the RDF for a given concept? The page seems > to only present the english names for the concept and its linked concepts." > > Leaving aside RDF, it is really not straightforward for newcomers to get > from a concept page like that to the corresponding structured data. This > could be solved with the consistent addition of a simple link like "view > json/xml/rdf" to each of the concept pages on wikidata. They would just be > links to the API calls: e.g. > http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q423111 in this > case. > > As the concept pages themselves get tossed around a lot, such an addition > could be extremely valuable in teaching the uninitiated what its all about > and would come at very little cost - to me, this button is akin to the 'view > source' action on web pages - an absolutely fundamental part of how the web > grows - even now.
There is a link in the sidebar titled "concept URI" which takes you to the URI for the concept of the current page and does content negotiation. I am trying to strike a balance between making this more visible and not overloading the UI and confusing those users who have no idea about any of this. Suggestions for how to achieve this better than we currently do are welcome. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
