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