Lydia Pintscher wrote: >* 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.
Hi. Thanks for the reply. I'm still not sure I fully understand the status/progress and how Wikidata infrastructure interrelates. From a wiki such as the English Wikipedia, I want to be able to dynamically create a list of every president of the United States, for example. In terms of implementation, the on-wiki interface would likely be Scribunto/Lua modules or a parser function or some kind, I think? Are you saying this type of arbitrary querying will be possible soon? On Meta-Wiki, I happened to see <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=13546684&oldid=13540264>, which is also kind of muddying the timelines and features in my head. It sounds like, at least for Meta-Wiki, the Wikidata access roll-out won't be happening in September, it'll be happening in October. And even in October, it will be limited to interwiki data initially. Is what's being discussed on Meta-Wiki (interwiki data access) what the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias have already had for several months? I'm really excited about the ability to do arbitrary on-wiki querying. :-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
