That looks familiar :-)

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:46 PM Markus Kroetzsch <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As promised a while ago, we have reworked our "Wikidata Classes and
> Properties" browser. I am happy to introduce the first beta version of a
> new app, called SQID:
>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/
>
> It is a complete rewrite of the earlier application. Much faster, more
> usable, much more up-to-date information, supported on all reasonable
> browsers, and with tons of new features. Try it yourself, or read on for
> the main functions and current dev plans:
>
>
> == Browse classes and properties ==
>
> You can use it to find properties and class items by all kinds of
> filtering settings:
>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/browse?type=properties
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/browse?type=classes
>
> New features:
> * Sort results by a criterion of choice
> * Powerful, easy-to-use filtering interface
> * Search properties by label, datatype, qualifiers used, or co-occurring
> properties
> * Search classes by label, (indirect) superclass or by properties used
> on instances of the class
> * All property statistics and some class statistics are updated every hour
>
> == View Wikidata entities ==
>
> The goal was to have a page for every property and every class, but we
> ended up having a generic data browser that can show all (live) data +
> some additional data for classes and properties (this is our main goal,
> but the other data is often helpful to understand the context). The UI
> is modelled after Reasonator as the quasi-standard of how Wikidata
> should look, but if you look beyond the surface you can see many
> differences in what SQID will (or will not) display.
>
> Examples:
> * Dresden, a plain item with a lot of data:
>    http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=Q1731
> * Volcano, a class with many subclasses:
>    http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=Q8072
> * sex or gender, a frequently used property:
>    http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=P21
>
> Notable features:
> * Fast display
> * All statement data with all qualifiers shown
> * Extra statistical and live query data embedded
>
> == General Wikidata statistics ==
>
> As a minor feature, we also publish statistics on the weekly full
> Wikidata dump (which we process to get some of the statistics):
>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/status
>
> Don't trust the main page -- find out how many entities there really are
> ;-)
>
>
> == Plans, todos, feedback, contributions ==
>
> We are on github, so please make feature requests and bug reports there:
>
> https://github.com/Wikidata/WikidataClassBrowser/issues
>
> Pull requests are welcome too.
>
> Known limitations of the current version:
>
> * Data update still a bit shaky. We refresh most statistical data every
> hour (entity data is live anyway), but you may not see this unless you
> clear your browser cache. This will be easier in the future.
> * Entity data browser does not show sitelinks and references yet.
> * Incoming properties not shown yet on entity pages
> * I18N not complete yet (if you would like to try the current dev
> status, see, e.g.: http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=Q318&lang=de)
>
> Moreover, we are also planning to integrate more data displays, better
> live statistics, and editing capabilities. Developers who want to help
> there are welcome. SQID can also be a platform for other data display
> ideas (it's built using AngularJS, so integration is easy).
>
> == And what about Miga? ==
>
> The old Miga-based app at
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/ will be retired in due
> course. Please update your links.
>
> == Credits ==
>
> I have had important development support from Markus Damm, Michael
> Günther and Georg Wild. We are funded by the German Research Foundation
> DFG. All of us are at TU Dresden. Complex statistics are computed with
> Wikidata Toolkit. Live query results come from the Wikidata SPARQL Query
> Service.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Markus
>
> --
> Markus Kroetzsch
> Faculty of Computer Science
> Technische Universität Dresden
> +49 351 463 38486
> http://korrekt.org/
>
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