AFAIK, you can query data from Wikidata, but you cannot put it into a page,
unless its a graph. Graphs can do it -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo/Sparql
As of last Thursday, you can also create a table on Commons Data namespace,
and make a simple Lua script on your favorite wiki to pull that data in and
render it. Since Wikidata is accessible from Lua, you could pull useful
information about each president. I am not sure about the efficiency
aspects here.
WeatherDemo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/WeatherDemo> -- pulls
data from commons Data:Weather/New_York_City.tab
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Weather/New_York_City.tab> and
formats it using enwiki module
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Sandbox/Yurik>. I'm still working on
some fun demos for a big presentation.
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 8:30 PM MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Hi.
If I wanted to make a page on the English Wikipedia using wikitext called
"List of United States presidents" that dynamically embeds information
from <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23> and
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11806> and other similar items, is this
currently possible? I consider this to be arbitrary Wikidata querying, but
if that's not the correct term, please let me know what to call it.
A more advanced form of this Wikidata querying would be dynamically
generating a list of presidents of the United States by finding every
Wikidata item where position held includes "President of the United
States". Is this currently possible on-wiki or via wikitext?
If either of these querying capabilities are possible, how do I do them?
I don't understand how to query Wikidata in a useful way and I find this
frustrating. Since 2012, we've been putting a lot of data into Wikidata,
but I want to programmatically extract some of this data and use it in my
Wikipedia editing. How do I do this?
If these querying capabilities are not currently possible, when might they
be? I understand that cache invalidation is difficult and that this will
need a sensible editing user interface, but I don't care about all of
that, I just want to be able to query data out of this large data store.
MZMcBride
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