Hey MZ :) On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:00 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan Garry wrote: >>The Discovery Department at the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to >>announce the release of the Wikidata Query Service >><https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service>! You can find the >>interface for the service at https://query.wikidata.org. >> >>The Wikidata Query Service is designed to let users run queries on the >>data contained in Wikidata. The service uses SPARQL >><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL> as the query language. You can see >>some example queries in the user manual >><https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual>. > > Thanks for this e-mail. Wikidata query service looks neat. > > When will be this type of functionality be available on-wiki? I have a > vague memory that some type of query service similar to this one was/is > intended to be used to allow arbitrary access to Wikidata data from/on > Wikimedia wikis such as the English Wikipedia.
You're mixing up two things. (No problem. It _is_ confusing.) Let me try to untangle it: * The Wikipedias only had access to the dataset from Wikidata that was directly linked via an interwiki link on any given article. This had technical reasons - performance among others. The Wikidata team has worked over the past months to remove this limitation. That is what we call arbitrary access - you can get data from any dataset on Wikidata. This is now live on many of our wikis. There are only a few missing - among them English Wikipedia. English Wikipedia will get it next Wednesday. * The other thing is automatic list creation and maintenance and related features. My team is still planning to do this. The Wikidata Query Service is the basis for it. Magnus has made a working prototype already that you can try out right now: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=301 It'd be great for more people to use this and give us feedback so we can let that influence future features. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
