Hi everyone,
As you may know, the Wikidata development team has been working on a
form-based query builder. It will allow people who don’t know how SPARQL to
build lists of Items. I’m happy to announce that the Wikidata Query Builder
has now been deployed: https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder/
Example queries
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Authors born in Ghana <https://w.wiki/3udQ>
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Female fictional archaeologists <https://w.wiki/3udN>
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Painters with no reference attached to the place of birth
<https://w.wiki/3uWJ>
One important thing to keep in mind: The Query Builder is not meant to
allow you to build queries with the full power of SPARQL. It gives you
access to some really important features of SPARQL that are already pretty
powerful. We hope that it will even allow more people to get their first
experience building queries and then maybe advancing to writing SPARQL
directly once they figured out the basics with the Query Builder and got
interested.
We started development last year and many of you participated in the
testing sessions and gave us valuable feedback along the way. Thanks to you
all!
*Here are some of the things you can do with the Query builder:*
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Query for any property (supported data types: string, Item, external
identifier) with or without a specific value
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Add or remove several query conditions
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Include results from subclasses when querying for Item values
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Having multiple query conditions and connecting them via AND as well as
OR
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See the interface of the Query Builder in several languages by adding
?uselang= to the URL (example
<https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder/?uselang=fr> - Translatewiki
page <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Wikidata_Query_Builder>)
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Show IDs instead of labels in the results (to prevent timeouts)
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Add a limit to the number of results (to prevent timeouts)
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Show the query in the Wikidata Query Service
Please try it out and let us know
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Query_Builder> if you
encounter any issues.
Cheers,
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
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Hi all,
In the 2021–2022 fiscal year, the WMF Search team is working on scaling up
Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries –
we will be following up shortly with more updates regarding this. In order
to design a querying service that works for most use cases, it is important
for us to understand the needs of WDQS users.
We are trying to cover the diverse use cases of WDQS. Whether you are an
occasional user of the service, running queries regularly, for example for
maintenance purposes, or hitting the WDQS daily with your tools, your
feedback is welcome on this short survey. If you are interested in
providing feedback, please fill out our survey:
https://forms.gle/WzBDGWPUsi43YAhBA
Thanks for your participation!
This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject
it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling,
see the survey privacy statement
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/WDQS_User_Survey_2021_Privacy_Stateme…>.
For technical issues with the survey, please contact mpham(a)wikimedia.org.
Best,
Mike
—
*Mike Pham* (he/him)
Sr Product Manager, Search
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hey everyone :)
I’m super excited to announce that Manuel Merz has joined the Wikidata
team as Analytics Product Manager!
Manuel and I will work closely together in supporting Wikidata’s
development and you all. As Wikidata's second product manager, Manuel
will especially focus on strengthening our data analytics and
long-term maintenance work. This includes the product responsibility
for bug reports from the Wikidata community, so you will see him more
and more on Phabricator.
Manuel is a long-time Wikimedian: He started as a volunteer Wikipedia
editor in 2006, has built up Wikimedia Deutschland's impact
orientation since 2012, and in 2019 in his free time, he published his
Ph.D. thesis on the Wikipedia community. He also runs a small software
development company which aids to his product management experience.
Please leave a note on his talk page
<https://wikidata.org/wiki/User:Manuel_Merz_(WMDE)> or write to him
directly anytime at manuel.merz(a)wikimedia.de. He will also be at
Wikimania, e.g. the Wikidata Pink Pony session, so this would be an
excellent way to get to know him!
Manuel, it's great to have you on the team!
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
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Hello all,
We invite you all to sign up for Toolhub's Quality Signal sessions!
Toolhub <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub> [1] is a
community-authored catalog of Wikimedia tools. On Toolhub, you will be able
to discover new tools in the Wikimedia ecosystem, promote their use in your
wiki community, and help improve them by contributing data. Toolhub's first
release is planned around Wikimania 2021.
The Toolhub team is currently working on identifying quality indicators
through conversations with tool users and developers. As a tool user, how
do you know which tool is reliable, useful, and safe to use? As a tool
maintainer, what makes it attractive to you to contribute to an existing
tool? What information are you looking for to decide whether to join a tool
project? We hope that these sessions will help gather quality indicators
for tools and provide valuable insight toward developing new features to
convey the quality.
Want to organize a quality signal session in your community in August/early
September? Please get in touch on the talk page or sign-up for an already
planned session by adding your name below it: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions> [2].
Your feedback, thoughts, ideas would be valuable!
If you are attending Wikimania, we are running a few introductions and a
feedback session as part of the unconference. Learn more here: <
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub> [3].
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Toolhub team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions
[3] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello all,
This email is a reminder to start proposing projects and sessions for this
year’s Wikimania hackathon, taking place on August 13th (the first day of
Wikimania). You may have already seen the announcement email last week with
all the details.
This year’s hackathon will take place in a 24 hrs format covering all time
zones. You can start proposing a session or a project by following the
guidelines here: <
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Propose_a_project_or_a_…>
[1].
We also encourage folks to reuse the video of a previously recorded session
(in lecture format) to organize a watch party-style session. And, you can
pause during or after for questions and discussions. That way, you have to
do less prep, and one can watch your session at any time during the event.
There isn't a specific focus area proposed this time, so your session or
project needn't fit under a theme. Anything that involves MediaWiki
development or covers a technical area in the Wikimedia ecosystem. Plus, we
welcome sessions that would be helpful to newcomers–new to the event, our
technical spaces, or projects.
If you have any questions, feel free to use the related talk page to
contact the organizing team or join the community conversation on Telegram:
<https://t.me/wikimaniachat> [2].
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Wikimania Hackathon organizing team
[1]
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Propose_a_project_or_a_…
[2] https://t.me/wikimaniachat
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia
Commons Query Service, etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
*NOTE: We have a new Google Meet link as of August 2021, which offers
international calling options.*
Trey Jones
Sr. Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC–4 / EDT