Hey Yaron and Sahaj,
awesome, i've been thinking about building something like this before,
and it's nice that somebody finally did just that :)
A couple of things I noticed:
* I understand that you're trying to hide Q/P-numbers (which I think
is a good idea), but you still need them for the 'Class' entry at the
top. You'll probably want an autocomplete-like thing there that gives
back items. I see that you're using Vue.js, so you could maybe get
some inspiration from the autosuggest component i've been using in
SDSearch (
https://github.com/hay/wiki-tools/tree/master/public_html/sdsearch)
* Most of the example queries from the homepage (e.g. humans,
paintings) take a *really* long time to load. You're dealing with some
limits of the query service,but i could imagine that you could still
speed it up, for example by not getting all the labels, only for the
ones that you actually need on that screen. Alternatively, you might
get results a lot faster by using the search API and using the
'haswbstatement' operator
(
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch)
* There seems to be a bug when i'm using the back button on a class
overview page, i can only go back by clicking on the link to the
homepage.
* There's another bug (i guess?) where if i'm clicking on a filter i
get a message saying ('No filters'), but things are still filtered.
* I think it would be really useful if you could change your filters
on the fly, so that you don't need to go back to a previous page to
select a new filter. E.g, how this works on VizQuery
(
https://hay.toolforge.org/vizquery/)
Oh, and you can help with making your tool more visible by providing a
toolinfo.json file and submitting it to the Tools directory:
https://hay.toolforge.org/directory/#addtool
Kind regards,
-- Hay
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 3:14 PM Yaron Koren <yaron57(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm very pleased to announce a project that Sahaj Khandelwal (cc'ed) and I have
been working on for the last two months ago: Wikidata Walkabout, a new site that lets you
browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata. You can
find it here:
https://wikidatawalkabout.org/
It's certainly not the only navigation interface for Wikidata, but what makes
Wikidata Walkabout unique, I think, is its simplicity: you don't need to know any Q or
P values (these are mostly hidden from the interface), or really anything about
Wikidata's structure; you just need to click on different values to find whatever
interests you.
Wikidata Walkabout runs on an open-source application, Anvesha, which was created by me
and Sahaj (mostly Sahaj). You can see the current code here:
https://github.com/sahajsk21/Anvesha
And you can read more about the site and the thinking behind it here:
https://wikidatawalkabout.org/about/
There are various improvements that could be made - the biggest probably being that the
site and application are currently both hardcoded in English - but hopefully this is
already a useful tool, for researchers or the general public.
We look forward to any feedback.
-Yaron
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