Great, congratulations to getting this deployed! Now we can start developing downstream applications :-)
Markus
P.S. @Gerard: it is not meant to move Magnus's query tools to SPARQL. He could of course do this, if he thinks it is easier for him regarding future maintenance/feature extensions. But since his tools are working well, there is no reason to change the underlying technology. In the end, anything that works is fine. Having other solutions for specific query features can always be a good idea. SPARQL supports very powerful queries (like "find all statements with references based on 'Le Figaro'"). More specialised query services that do not support all of this can achieve higher performance. This is why more specialised solutions such as WDQ can also have advantages. Moreover, no matter which query service is used in the backend, it always makes sense to develop more user interfaces that simplify query construction.
On 08.09.2015 00:29, Dan Garry wrote:
The Discovery Department at the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the Wikidata Query Service https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service! You can find the interface for the service at https://query.wikidata.org.
The Wikidata Query Service is designed to let users run queries on the data contained in Wikidata. The service uses SPARQL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL as the query language. You can see some example queries in the user manual https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual.
Right now, the service is still in beta. This means that our goal https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Wikidata_Query_Service is to monitor of the service usage and collect feedback about what people think should be next. To do that, we've created the Wikidata Query Service dashboard https://searchdata.wmflabs.org/wdqs/ to track usage of the service, and we're in the process https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111403 of setting up a feedback mechanism for users of the service. Once we've got monitored the usage of the service for a while and got user feedback, we'll decide on what's next for development of the service.
If you have any feedback, suggestions, or comments, please do send an email to the Discovery Department's public mailing list, wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thanks, Dan
-- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
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