There is also {{query page}}
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Query_page>, which is useful if
you want to reuse the query elsewhere on Wikidata.Cheers, Lucas On 18.02.21 18:52, Crystal E. Clements wrote: > > Thank you, Jeff! I was unaware of this template. > > > > *From:* Wikidata <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of > *Young,Jeff (OR) > *Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2021 9:38 AM > *To:* Discussion list for the Wikidata project > <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Wikidata] Identifiers for WDQS queries > > > > Another option would be to store the query on your Wikidata home page > using the {{SPARQL}} template and then sending a link to the page > section for it. Here’s an example: > > > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:SPARQL#Examples > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:SPARQL#Examples> > > > > Jeff > > > > *From: *Wikidata <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Crystal E. > Clements <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > *Date: *Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 12:02 PM > *To: *Discussion list for the Wikidata project > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > *Subject: *[External] Re: [Wikidata] Identifiers for WDQS queries > > James, > > I work with Wikidata in an academic library setting, and frequently > use the WDQS in my work and to demonstrate the power and value of > Wikidata to colleagues. I found myself copying and pasting a whole > query into the notes of a presentation slide yesterday rather than > trying to paste in the URL from WDQS. > > I would use identifiers for queries in my daily work, and I think this > is a fantastic idea. A place to save and share queries, like Quarry, > would be useful for sharing SPARQL/WDQS expertise as well. > > I don't have privacy concerns about my WDQS queries, but I could see > that objection happening. Maybe saving and adding identifiers to > queries could be an opt-in kind of thing? > > Best, > > Crystal Clements > University of Washington Libraries > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikidata <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of James Heald > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:33 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikidata] Identifiers for WDQS queries > > Dear wikidata list, > > One of the key things we do as Wikidata people is go round the > internet, hassling people to create nice identifiers for their things, > with URIs and landing-pages that we can link to. > > It brought me up quite short to realise that actually applies to *us* > too -- there is an important thing of ours that haven't got a linkable > identifier for, that it would be useful if there was a short linkable > url for, and that is WDQS queries. > > > So here's the use-case: > > [[User:PKM]] and I have been working with a new external project who > want to build a "Gazetteer of Early Modern England and Wales" (EMEW) > -- basically a historical GIS for 15th & 16th century England and > Wales, able to plot things on this map: > https://viaeregiae.org/index.php/map/?layers=l9001l0007 > <https://viaeregiae.org/index.php/map/?layers=l9001l0007> > > There's huge scope for collaboration with Wikidata, with deep linking > both ways, as we both try to improve our coverage of C16-C17 England > and Wales (expect WikiProject [[:d:WD:EMEW]] just as soon as we can > get the pages made) > > Something that we realise we want to be able to do, from the EMEW > site, is for a user to be able to give it the URL for a WDQS sparql > query, for the site to send that to WDQS, get back a file of EMEW ids, > and show the results on the EMEW map. > > > Now of course that *can* be done with full WDQS query URLs. But they > are horribly long and awkward. > > What would be much nicer would be if each time WDQS ran a query it > hadn't seen before, it generated a new short identifier, that the UI > would display, and which could then be used to refer to the query. > > So on the EMEW site, one would just put in the short identifier, that > would send it to WDQS with some appropriate URL-start to show it was a > request for data rather than for a link, back would come the results > -- and all the user would have had to copy in was a short identifier. > > > Of course to some extent the URL-shortener does this, but there are some > issues: > > 1) The maintainers point-blank refuse to let it allow URLs of more than > 2000 characters. ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220703 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220703> ) Gnarly WDQS queries can > often be longer than this, sometimes a lot longer. > > 2) The short URL could be for anything on any wiki site -- the EMEW > site can't be sure that it corresponds to a SPARQL query > > 3) The short URL needs to be adjusted, to turn it from a WDQS url > that's a link to the query in the GUI into a WDQS url that's an > external request for query results. This is not straightforward. > > > A short identifier for a WDQS query would get round all these things. > > It also might be one step forwards towards creating a place like Quarry > (https://quarry.wmflabs.org/ <https://quarry.wmflabs.org>) where users > could save their queries, share them, document them, see other > people's shared queries, and come > back to them later. But that's another ticket > (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104762 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104762> open since July 2015). > > All I am suggesting, first, is an identifier. > > > One objection that I thought of might be that if identifiers were > automatically assigned, without having to actually request them, then > people might be able to "spy" on what other queries people happened to > be writing at any one time. I don't know how serious an objection this > is - it doesn't seem to be a problem for Quarry - but could largely be > avoided if the query-number was hashed to make the sequence less > predictable. > > (Or alternatively, query-numbers could just be issued on request). > > > Anyway, just putting this out here, for thoughts. > > Best wishes to everybody, > > James. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata> > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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