Determination method seems to work.
http://tinyurl.com/jygrx22
Thanks for the advice.


On Thursday, May 19, 2016 4:01 PM, Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:


On 19.05.2016 14:51, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> Here is a simple SPARQL query to get population numbers from (any time
> in) 2015 of (arbitrary types of) entities, limited to 100 results:
>
> SELECT ?entity ?entityLabel ?population ?time
> WHERE
> {
>      ?entity p:P1082 ?statement .
>      ?statement ps:P1082 ?population .
>      ?statement pq:P585 ?time .
>      FILTER (
>        ?time > "2015-01-01T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime &&
>        ?time < "2015-12-31T23:59:59Z"^^xsd:dateTime
>      )
>
>      SERVICE wikibase:label {
>          bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" .
>      }
> }
> LIMIT 100
>
> See http://tinyurl.com/gwzubox
>
> You can replace ?entity by something like wd:Q64 to query the population
> of a specific place: http://tinyurl.com/jnajczu (I changed to 2014 here
> since there are no 2015 figures for Berlin).
>
> You could also add other qualifiers to narrow down statements further,
> but of course only if Wikidata has such information in the first place.
> I don't see many qualifiers other than P585 being used with population
> statements, so this is probably of little use.

Well, there are some useful qualifiers in some cases, e.g.,
determination method. Here are estimated populations between 2000 and
2015: http://tinyurl.com/zp6ymwr

See https://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=P1082 for more qualifiers.

Markus



>
> Cheers
>
> Markus
>
> On 19.05.2016 14:35, Yetkin Sakal wrote:
>> The only way I could find to retrieve it is through theAPI.
>>
>> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q2674064&property=P1082
>>
>>
>> How to go about picking a population type (urban, rural, etc.) and
>> accessing its value? I cannot see such a qualifier, so what is the right
>> way to do it?
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, May 19, 2016 9:50 AM, Gerard Meijssen
>> <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hoi,
>> So 2015 is preferred, how do I then get the data for 1984?
>> Thanks.
>>      GerardM
>>
>> On 18 May 2016 at 21:00, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@wikimedia.org
>> <mailto:smalyshev@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi!
>>
>>      > Is there any chance we can access qualifier-specific data on
>>    Wikidata?
>>      > For instance, we have two population properties on
>>      > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2674064 and want to access the
>>    value of
>>      > the first one (i.e, the population value for 2015).
>>
>>    What should happen is that 2015 value should be marked as preferred.
>>    That is regardless of data access. Then probably something like this:
>>
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.entity:getBestStatements
>>
>>    can be used (not sure if there's better way to achieve the same).
>>    Also not sure what #property would return...
>>    --
>>    Stas Malyshev
>>    smalyshev@wikimedia.org <mailto:smalyshev@wikimedia.org>
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