Hi!
while you are at it, some things would be very useful
to be search-able
(maybe some are already by now):
* "primary" (not references/qualifiers) years, for birth/death/flourit etc.
* "primary" string/monolingual values (title, taxon name, etc.)
* "primary" IDs, e.g. VIAF (might cause confusion with years, so maybe
only add numerical IDs if 5+ digits?)
We have the code to index statements already, and we're already indexing
P31 and P279. We could index more properties. We don't have syntax or
any other way though to actually use those in search - yet, except for
boosting (see
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/384632/).
We're looking at which properties to add (nominations welcome, probably
in the form of phab ticket?) - since adding them requires full reindex
of wikidata (couple of days) we probably don't want to add them one by
one but want to collect a set and then do it in one hit.
We also do not have syntax for searching (as in match, instead of boost)
by statement values, but it should not be hard - we just need to design
proper syntax and implement it (syntaxes are now pluggable, so should
not be too big of a problem).
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org