On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:42 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
It'll still take some time until my team can dive into it. We still have to take care of a few more fundamental data quality related features. Until then you can use Magnus' excellent bot to do something similar. > 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? Yes. They are getting what enwp and others have had for quite some time. > I'm really excited about the ability to do arbitrary on-wiki querying. :-) :) Me too! 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
