I added a fun little screencast to our API:Search and discovery page of a toy project that shows how to explore Wikidata graphically.
Caution: for some reason, this image seems to crash Firefox spectacularly. Works fine in Chrome though.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Wikidata_Explorer_screen...
This will get *way* more powerful once we have WDQS in prod.
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:40 AM, S Page spage@wikimedia.org wrote:
(retrying mail aliases, sorry if you've already seen this)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: S Page spage@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:04 PM Subject: Search API documentation To: search-tech search-tech@wikimedia.org Cc: Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org, Brad Jorsch bjorsch@wikimedia.org
Hey, James Douglas talked to me about search APIs. I started an overview of what's available at mw:API:Search_and_discovery https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search_and_discovery that links to existing API pages and the generated MediaWiki API help. In particular the API pages have a link to [try in ApiSandbox] so you can load them up and play around with the MediaWiki API search modules. I added a link to this overview on your team's top-level mw:Search and Discovery page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search_and_Discovery page. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search_and_Discovery
I'm also writing articles for a planned "Data and developer hub" to encourage third-party developers to use Wikimedia data and APIs. Fortuitously two of the early articles are about how desktop and mobile use search, "Page info in search results" and "Showing nearby wiki information", so API:Search and discovery links to these as well.
Though I'm on the Reading team I'll do what I can to document your stuff, particularly what it can do for third-party developers.
Cheers,
=S Page WMF Tech writer
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