Hey,
I just need to be able to do something like:
SELECT `qid` FROM Wikibase WHERE `Instance Of` = 'Elephant';
Using that list and the Wikibase API, I can do processing on my own of
the
returned data and take it from there.
That is not possible until simple query functionality is finished.
I knew complex queries were not done yet, but I though simple might be. Its of no worry though. I can run a nightly job to iterate through all of the items to build an index of them that is good enough for what I need.
While the MediaWiki extension that will expose this, Wikibase Query, has no releases yet, the component it is based on, Wikibase QueryEngine, does have a release already. And that release allows you to do the very basic query in your example. So if you are fine with specifying the query and getting the results in PHP land, you can already go ahead and use QueryEngine.
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3