On 7 January 2014 22:08, Jan Kučera kozuch82@gmail.com wrote:
nice to read all the reasoning why queries are yet still not possible, but I think we live in 2014 not and not 1914 actually... seems like the problem is too small budget or bad management... can not really think of another reason. How much do you think would it cost to make queries reality for production at Wikidata?
Absolutely the most important thing about Wikidata is the deep integration (both technical and social) into the Wikipedia universe. Building a sensible query framework for a system working at Wikipedia scale (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org) is far from trivial. I've glad to hear that Wikidata are taking the time to do this carefully.
Dan