On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:01 PM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to make you aware of this RFC started by Gerard: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Define_lists_on_...
It is interesting because in the end, what is the difference between a list, a category, and a query? Not much, really.
I'm curious to know if the approach taken with queries will be the same as the WDQ http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=6573995
Items like "List of..." or "Category:" would have some use, but the development notes don't state if this is the intended path https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries
Any thoughts about it?
I've been trying to understand the RfC 3 times now and still fail. So I can't answer your questions unfortunately.
The short and simplified version of how complex queries will work: * someone defines a query on a page in a special query namespace (eg "everything that has author = Douglas Adams") * the result of the query is a list of items matching the query * the Wikipedias can include the result of the query and visualize it in certain ways on a page. (eg the wikitext of the article "List of works by Douglas Adams" would have a call to include the query result from Wikidata)
Cheers Lydia