The point I wanted to make (following your example), is that the Wikidata
Query "All novels by Douglas Adams" is equivalent to the item
"Category:Novels by Douglas Adams" [1]. In other cases there will be even 3
items representing the same information: the wd query, the category item,
and a "list of..." item. So I'm just wondering if this complexity is really
needed for structural/technical reasons.
Maybe there is an easier way instead of linking to the wd query with a
"category's main query" property?
Cheers,
Micru
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8687492
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:01 PM, David Cuenca
<dacuetu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to make you aware of this RFC
started by Gerard:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Define_lists_on…
It is interesting because in the end, what is the difference between a
list,
a category, and a query? Not much, really.
I'm curious to know if the approach taken with queries will be the same
as
the WDQ
http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=6573995
Items like "List of..." or "Category:" would have some use, but the
development notes don't state if this is the intended path
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries
Any thoughts about it?
I've been trying to understand the RfC 3 times now and still fail. So
I can't answer your questions unfortunately.
The short and simplified version of how complex queries will work:
* someone defines a query on a page in a special query namespace (eg
"everything that has author = Douglas Adams")
* the result of the query is a list of items matching the query
* the Wikipedias can include the result of the query and visualize it
in certain ways on a page. (eg the wikitext of the article "List of
works by Douglas Adams" would have a call to include the query result
from Wikidata)
Cheers
Lydia
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