Hi Magnus,
Magnus Manske schreef op 8-1-2015 om 22:07:
Hi Marteen,
they have evaluated, and rejected (rightly so) WDQ as one alternative.
They also seem to have all my query commands covered, AFAICT. See the
notes Nik linked to.
I don't see WDQ as an alternative. Maybe I wasn't
clear enough, I'm
talking about the *functionality* of WikidataQuery. So for example WDQ
has the feature that I can get a list of items for which certain claims
are true. That's a feature.
Personally, I will be relieved once running such a
vital service is
not on my part-time shoulders anymore :-) WDQ has been challenging and
fun, but it should really be an official WMF service offering a
Wikidata query API, just like Wikidata proper is.
Of course, but if the new service
is lacking features or just not
better, people will continue using WDQ. It would be like the Toolserver
-> Toollabs experience all over again :-(
Maarten
Cheers,
Magnus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl
<mailto:maarten@mdammers.nl>> wrote:
Hi Nik!
Nikolas Everett schreef op 7-1-2015 om 0:01:
tl/dr: we're going to move forward building a query service
against Titan/Cassandra rather than OrientDB or ArangoDB or
anything else.
Great to hear that you're making progress! On thing you didn't
mention in your email or in the spreadsheet is that we already
have a query service prototype at
http://wdq.wmflabs.org/ . You do
know about that, right?
Whatever you come up with will be compared with WikidataQuery. You
need to manage expectations here and communicate. WikidataQuery is
your baseline. If you lack certain features that are in
WikidataQuery, the new query service sucks from a user
perspective. If on the other hand you have things that are better
(reliability? speed?), the new query service is a good next step
from a user perspective.
I would strongly suggest you make a comparison of WikidataQuery
and the new query service so the users know what to expect and can
comment in an early stage. If you don't do this you risk ending up
with a technical outstanding service that nobody is using.
Maarten
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