For the benefit of those on this list, there was a follow-up IRC conversation, in which the outcome was, briefly:

SPARQL queries are user queries, and thus would be subject to the same rules as search queries. Which means that they are not released except under NDA and with good rationale.

I'm not a lawyer, so that is just my very high-level summary of the conversation.




Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc@wikimedia.org> wrote:
CC'ing our legal contact Stephen to help you think about this.

Please pull in Oliver as well as he's thought broadly about this for Discovery.

--tomasz

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was asked about getting access to query logs for Wikidata Query
> Service, for research purposes. So I'd like to start the discussion on
> it, specifically:
>
> 1. Can we do it at all - technically, legally, privacy-wise? (note we're
> talking about SPARQL query text only, no other information to be provided)
>
> 2. Are there any considerations why we may want *not* to do it even if
> we could?
>
> 3. How hard would it be to make such export and do we have any existing
> infrastructure that should be used for this?
>
> All ideas/comments about providing (or not providing :) access to this
> data are welcome.
> --
> Stas Malyshev
> smalyshev@wikimedia.org
>
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