Hi Marteen,
they have evaluated, and rejected (rightly so) WDQ as one alternative. They
also seem to have all my query commands covered, AFAICT. See the notes Nik
linked to.
Personally, I will be relieved once running such a vital service is not on
my part-time shoulders anymore :-) WDQ has been challenging and fun, but it
should really be an official WMF service offering a Wikidata query API,
just like Wikidata proper is.
Cheers,
Magnus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:
Hi Nik!
Nikolas Everett schreef op 7-1-2015 om 0:01:
tl/dr: we're going to move forward building a
query service against
Titan/Cassandra rather than OrientDB or ArangoDB or anything else.
Great to hear that you're making progress! On thing you didn't mention in
your email or in the spreadsheet is that we already have a query service
prototype at
http://wdq.wmflabs.org/ . You do know about that, right?
Whatever you come up with will be compared with WikidataQuery. You need to
manage expectations here and communicate. WikidataQuery is your baseline.
If you lack certain features that are in WikidataQuery, the new query
service sucks from a user perspective. If on the other hand you have things
that are better (reliability? speed?), the new query service is a good next
step from a user perspective.
I would strongly suggest you make a comparison of WikidataQuery and the
new query service so the users know what to expect and can comment in an
early stage. If you don't do this you risk ending up with a technical
outstanding service that nobody is using.
Maarten
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