Yes, I'll keep playing with it, it's already saved me dozens of hours of work, thanks. Now, just 25 letters of the alphabet to go!
*David Lowe | The New York Public Library**Specialist II, Photography Collection* *Photographers' Identities Catalog <http://pic.nypl.org>* On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Thomas Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > > I find the WIKISEARCH a bit overly permissive for general use, but it did > > find some useful matches. > > The underlying Wikipedia API request is to the best of my > understanding essentially the same as a regular on-Wikipedia search. > You might get better results by setting the optional second parameter > "opt_didYouMean" to true like so: =WIKISEARCH("search term", TRUE). In > some cases it then shows the most probable alternative result that you > might have wanted to actually search for instead. Give it a spin. > Also, together with the pipeline I have set up for you in the sheet, > you can filter on type, so when you know you are looking for "instance > of: human", you can exclude anything non-human. Hope this helps! > > Cheers, > Tom > > -- > Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (http://blog.tomayac.com, > https://twitter.com/tomayac) > > Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany > Managing Directors: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle > Registration office and registration number: Hamburg, HRB 86891 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.29 (GNU/Linux) > > iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DChara > CTersAttH3b0ttom > hTtPs://xKcd.cOm/1181/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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