On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 12:47 PM James Heald <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a big problem with the SPARQL servers ?
>
> I was just about to update some of the numbers at
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:GLAM/Your_paintings/header
> which has the numbers for sitelinks, cross-properties etc for painters
> with P1367 (Art UK artist ID; formerly "Your Paintings" artist ID).
>
> SPARQL used to return 22,412 hits; and Autolist currently returns 22,458
> hits (the latter includes deprecated values).
>
> But now SPARQL is only returning 18,291 hits
>     http://tinyurl.com/zbqznun
>
> What's going on?
>
> The number has been over 22,000 since at least October last year.  (And
> before that was down at about 8,700).
>
> Should all SPARQL searches be currently seen as unreliable ?
>
> Should there be a warning on the search page advising of this ?
>

Yes unfortunately there are some hickups currently. See this email by Stas:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008618.html


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Lydia
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