[Wikidata] WDQS status

Hello all! The Search Platform team will join the WIkidata office hours on July 21st 16:00 UTC [1]. We are looking forward to discussing Wikidata Query Service and anything else you might find of interest. We've been hard at work on Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) [2]. This will be a SPARL endpoint similar to WDQS, but serving the Structured Data on Commons dataset. Our goal is to open a beta service, hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Service (WMCS) by the end of July. The service will require an account on Commons for authentication and will allow federation with WDQS. We don't have a streaming update process ready yet, the data will be reloaded from Commons dumps weekly for a start. As part of that work, the dumps for Structured Data on Commons are now available [3]. Note that the prefix used in the TTL dumps is "wd", which does not make much sense. We are working with WMDE on renaming the prefixes, but this is more complex than expected since "wd" is hardcoded in more places than it should be. Those prefix should only be valid in the local context of the dumps, so renaming them is technically a non breaking change. That being said, if you start using those dumps, make sure you don't rely on this prefix, or that you are ready for a rename [4]. We are planning to dig more into the data we have to get a better understanding of the use cases around WDQS [5] (not much content on that task yet, but it is coming). Some very preliminary analysis indicates that less then 2% of the queries on WDQS generate more than 90% of the load. This is definitely something we need to better understand. We will be working on defining the kind of questions we need to answer, and improving our data collection to be able to answer those questions. We have started an internal discussion around "planning for disaster" [6]. We want to better understand the potential failure scenarios around WDQS and have a plan if that worst case does happen. This will include some analytics work and some testing to better understand the constraints and what degraded mode we might still be able to provide in case of catastrophic failure. Thanks for reading! Guillaume [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251488 [3] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikibase/commonswiki/ [4] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikibase/commonswiki/README_commonsrdfdum… [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257045 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257055 -- Guillaume Lederrey Engineering Manager, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC+1 / CET