Re: [Wikidata] How do you access Wikidata’s data and how does that work for you?

Hello Jan, They could send me or Jan Dittrich <jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de> an email with their answers. Below is the survey as a text. If you have any questions please let me know. Cheers, -Mohammed *Accessing Wikidata’s data from code* The Wikidata team at Wikimedia Deutschland is interested in making it easier for people who write code to use Wikidata’s data in their own applications and tools. Thus, we would like to learn more about the people who have accessed Wikidata’s data from the code of their own applications and tools. We will use what we learn to improve the ease of access and usefulness of the ways in which we provide the data. The participation is anonymous and there are no required answers. The data will only be shared in an aggregated form. ---------------------------------- *1. How experienced are you with accessing Wikidata’s data from code?* Accessing data means using e.g. the API, SQL, SPARQL or dumps to access Wikidata’s data Please answer with 1-5 where 1 is "I know nothing about this" and 5 is "I am an expert in this" Answer: _ *2. How experienced are you with accessing data from code in general?* "in general" means that this is about experiences on working with data of any project or product, not just Wikimedia ones. "Accessing data" means using e.g. APIs, SQL or web scraping Please answer with 1-5 where 1 is "I know nothing about this" and 5 is "I am an expert in this" Answer: _ 3. How much experience do you have in using these technologies for accessing data in general? "in general" means that this is about experiences on working with data of any project or product, not just Wikimedia ones. With "Mediawiki API" we mean the so-called "Action API": https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page Please answer on a scale from 1-5 where 1=not experienced 2= a bit 3 = somewhat 4= much 4 = Very much SQL – Answer: _ SPARQL – Answer:_ Mediawiki API – Answer:_ REST APIs – Answer:_ GraphQL – Answer: _ 4. What were your experiences in accessing Wikidata’s data? Tell us about what worked and what did not work well for you. Do you remember any specific obstacles that were hard to overcome? Answer: [you can write longer text here] ----------------- 5. How long have you been active in the Wikidata Community? (Delete the ones that do not apply) less than one year one year two years three years four years five years more than five years 6. Gender (Delete the ones that do not apply) non-binary female male prefer not to disclose Prefer to self-describe: 7. I currently live in… (Delete the ones that do not apply) Americas Africa Oceania Europe Asia prefer not to disclose On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:14 AM Jan Ainali <ainali.jan(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Mohammed Sadat Abdulai *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de