AFAIK, you can query data from Wikidata, but you cannot put it into a page, unless its a graph. Graphs can do it - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo/Sparql
As of last Thursday, you can also create a table on Commons Data namespace, and make a simple Lua script on your favorite wiki to pull that data in and render it. Since Wikidata is accessible from Lua, you could pull useful information about each president. I am not sure about the efficiency aspects here. WeatherDemo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/WeatherDemo> -- pulls data from commons Data:Weather/New_York_City.tab <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Weather/New_York_City.tab> and formats it using enwiki module <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Sandbox/Yurik>. I'm still working on some fun demos for a big presentation. On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 8:30 PM MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > If I wanted to make a page on the English Wikipedia using wikitext called > "List of United States presidents" that dynamically embeds information > from <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23> and > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11806> and other similar items, is this > currently possible? I consider this to be arbitrary Wikidata querying, but > if that's not the correct term, please let me know what to call it. > > A more advanced form of this Wikidata querying would be dynamically > generating a list of presidents of the United States by finding every > Wikidata item where position held includes "President of the United > States". Is this currently possible on-wiki or via wikitext? > > If either of these querying capabilities are possible, how do I do them? > I don't understand how to query Wikidata in a useful way and I find this > frustrating. Since 2012, we've been putting a lot of data into Wikidata, > but I want to programmatically extract some of this data and use it in my > Wikipedia editing. How do I do this? > > If these querying capabilities are not currently possible, when might they > be? I understand that cache invalidation is difficult and that this will > need a sensible editing user interface, but I don't care about all of > that, I just want to be able to query data out of this large data store. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
