Hej,

> Where is the documentation for this feature?

I briefly asked Jonas from the Wikidata team, he send me these links to the docs:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbsearchentities

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API/de#wbsearchentities

He also mentioned that he hopes we get it to work with elastic search at some point which would further improve this function.

Jan

2017-06-21 22:53 GMT+02:00 Hay (Husky) <huskyr@gmail.com>:
It's probably documented somewhere in the API docs, but it's really
quite easy, just replace the <query> in this URL to search Wikidata:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&origin=*&format=json&language=en&type=property&search=<query>

-- Hay

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Alex Stinson <astinson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Concerning keywords in the description field of properties: i think
>> that is a shortcoming of the current autocomplete API that i'm using,
>> which is the same one Wikidata uses for the searchbox in the top-right
>> corner. Apparently they're not indexing those keywords, which makes it
>> difficult for me to also include them in my search.
>>
>
> Where is the documentation for this feature? I have been getting a number of
> interesting comments from GLAMs about the difficulty of using Authority
> Controls within their in-house Content management systems. I feel like this
> API might be a really tangible way of promoting Wikidata as facilitating
> consistent identifiers for metadata.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
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