On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Thomas Douillard thomas.douillard@gmail.com wrote:
You should look at the dev team plans about the query engine. Queries will be associated to a query item, and the results of the query will be cached and maintained by the Wikibase software as the datas will be modified, if I understand well.
Yes. That is what we call "complex queries". The drawback of them (at least as they are designed right now) is that they are not instant. So we cannot use that for searching images on Commons as you will always want an instant result for a pretty much arbitrary search. This is an issue I've been thinking about for a while now and that we will definitely need to find an answer to. Discussions to have in the next weeks...
Cheers Lydia