Hi Markus, Great work!
One short question: Is there a way to switch to labels and descriptions in another language, by URL or otherwise? Cheers, Joachim > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Wikidata [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von > Markus Kroetzsch > Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. April 2016 21:45 > An: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. > Betreff: [Wikidata] SQID: the new "Wikidata classes and properties browser" > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
