Hello all! Apologies if you already have seen this communication in
another mailing list.
We’ve been moving forward on the WDQS Graph Split [1], time for an update!
We have new documentation to help the migration to the split graph:
* Federation limits [2]: Explanation of the limitations of the SPARQL
federation as used on the graph split. This might help you understand
what is possible and what isn’t when you need to federate the main
WDQS graph with the scholarly subgraph.
* Federated queries examples [3]: This document explains how to
rewrite queries to use SPARQL federation over the split graph. We’ve
taken a number of real life examples, and we’ve rewritten them to use
federation. While rewriting queries is not always trivial, the
examples that we tried are all possible to make work over a split
graph.
We have been reaching out to people who will be impacted by the graph
split. In particular, we have been having conversations with community
members close to the Scholia and Wikicite projects. In that context,
we are realizing that our initial split proposal (moving all instances
of Scholarly articles to a separate graph - ?entity wdt:P31
wd:Q13442814) is not sufficient. We have prepared a second and last
proposal that will refine this split to make it easier to use. See
"WDQS Split Refinement" [4] for details. We are open for feedback
until May 15th 2024, please send it to the related talk page [5].
While we refine this split, we are starting work on the implementation
of the missing pieces to make the graph split available. This includes
modifying the update pipeline to support the split and better
automation of the data loading process. We are also working on a
migration plan, which we will communicate as soon as it is ready. Our
current assumption is that we will leave ~6 months for the migration
once the split services are available before shutting down the full
graph endpoint.
We need your help more than ever!
If you have use cases that need access to scholarly articles, please
read "Federation Limits" [2] and "Federated Queries Examples" [3],
rewrite and test your queries, and add your working examples to
"Federated Queries Examples" [3].
Send your general feedback to the project page [1].
On a side note, WDQS isn’t the only SPARQL endpoint exposing the
Wikidata graph. You can have a look at "Alternative endpoints" [6],
which lists a number of alternatives not hosted by WMF, which might be
helpful during the transition.
Thanks!
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_split
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_spli…
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_spli…
[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_spli…
[5] https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata_talk:SPARQL_query_servi…
[6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Alternative_end…
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Luca Martinelli [Sannita] (he/him)
Movement Communications Specialist
Hello everyone,
The third edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (April
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*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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A server switch will happen on March 20, at 14:00 UTC. All wikis will be in
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We will inform communities as we usually do, through Tech News. Also, a
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Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>