On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
<quote name="Thad Guidry" date="2015-01-06" time="19:59:18 -0600"> > And so after some digging, and lack of responses on this thread,
Hi Thad!
I'm worried that the relevant people from the Wikidata/Wikibase project just aren't seeing your messages on this mailing list. I'm cc'ing here the wikidata list.
For those on the Wikidata list, see the full thread here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2015-January/003454.html
Thanks, Greg!
Hey Thad,
It takes us a bit more than a few hours to reply especially over the European night ;-) To your questions: There are two fundamental things here. * Number one: Creating a query service. This work is on-going now and tracked on this workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/891/ Here input on what kinds of queries you want to run against Wikidata data would be most useful. This is things like "give me all countries in Europe" and so on. * Number two: Getting back information about one particular item or property via Wikidata's API. This would be things like "for Q64 give me the value for P6" (to get the mayor of Berlin). There it'd be most helpful to get a list of things you'd like to (optionally) see in the API response. I take it you want not only the QID of the result but also its label?
Cheers Lydia