*(apologies for cross-posting)*
*This announcement is significant for Wikidata API users.*
As a follow-up to the recent improvements we made to the Special:NewLexeme
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewLexeme> page (see the previous
announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/TQTZXSMFRV47GDBKEYPN2PQF45JRJL6W/>)
we introduced a new search profile that will prioritize Items representing
languages in the Lexeme language input. This will allow editors to more
easily find the correct Item for the language of a Lexeme they are creating.
Users of the wbsearchentities Action API module can use a new parameter,
"profile", to select the search profile to use. The default value,
"default", is equivalent to the previous behavior of the API, and should be
suitable for most purposes. The "language" profile can be used to search
for Items representing languages, as it will prioritize these Items as
results. The wbsearch submodule of the query Action API module also gains
this parameter (called "wbsprofile", or "gwbsprofile" when wbsearch
is
being used as a generator), with the same allowed values and meaning. The
new parameter is optional, so most API users should not need to update
their code; users who use the API to search for language Items can add
"profile=language" to their request parameters.
New profiles may be added in future without additional significant change
announcements, though we will likely mention them in the weekly summary and
other channels as appropriate. As with any Action API module, the valid
values of the "profile" parameter may be discovered via the "help" or
"paraminfo" modules, and the values will have documentation messages
explaining what the profile can be used for.
The new parameter is already available on Test Wikidata, though the two
profiles will produce the same search results there. It will become
available on Wikidata on Thursday, 28 July 2022.
If you have feedback or questions please let us know on this phabricator
ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307869>.
Cheers
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
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