Just as Dan said :) thank you very much Magnus for your work!
This Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153439> lists the
remaining uses of the tool to be sure that nothing won't break after the
shutting down, if you have something to add, feel free to let a comment or
create a sub-task.
On 16 December 2016 at 17:43, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I want us to take this opportunity to thank Magnus for
creating WDQ. WDQ
was a excellent proof of concept which showed the potential of a querying
service for Wikidata. This let the case be made for dedicated staff time,
new scalable software, and dedicated hardware for the Wikidata Query
Service. This is a fantastic model for how software development can work in
our movement.
Thank you, Magnus. :-)
Dan
On 16 December 2016 at 03:50, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
I have not maintained WDQ
(
http://wdq.wmflabs.org/) for many months. It
just keeps "ticking away", with the occasional restart required. Its data
is likely out of sync with Wikidata proper, and most of its functionality
is better served by SPARQL (
https://query.wikidata.org/).
So we (Tool Labs tech and I) want to shut it down over the next few
months. I did some previous analysis (
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpr
ess/?p=410) and it looks like WDQ is pretty much obsolete. The one thing
people seem to like about it is the simple syntax, but that doesn't alone
seem to be a valid reason to keep it around, especially with a converter (
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdq2sparql/w2s.php) in place.
If there are other reasons to keep WDQ alive, please let me know ASAP!
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