But that's simply not the case. The
Category:Books by Jean-Paul Sartre
[1] or Category:Books by J.R.R. Tolkien [2} neither are a complete list of
books by those authors (e.g. Sartre's fictional books are missing,
Tolkien's non-fictional *and* Middle earth books are missing), nor are they
only including books by Tolkien (e.g. they also include templates and other
categories, which are likely not written by Sartre or Tolkien).
If the plan is to change the way categories are used in Wikipedia and
the other Wikimedia wikis, I'd say this is a very different goal, but
should be discussed on those wikis.
List-articles often contain much more love and care than a Wikidata
query result will for a while. I don't think that replacing an article like
the list of books by David Foster Wallace [3] the List of US Presidents [4]
with a single simple query is a short-term goal.
[1]
On Thu Mar 06 2014 at 1:49:54 PM, David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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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