On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:42 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
Thanks for the reply. I'm still not sure I fully understand the status/progress and how Wikidata infrastructure interrelates.
From a wiki such as the English Wikipedia, I want to be able to dynamically create a list of every president of the United States, for example. In terms of implementation, the on-wiki interface would likely be Scribunto/Lua modules or a parser function or some kind, I think? Are you saying this type of arbitrary querying will be possible soon?
It'll still take some time until my team can dive into it. We still have to take care of a few more fundamental data quality related features. Until then you can use Magnus' excellent bot to do something similar.
On Meta-Wiki, I happened to see https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=13546684&oldid=13540264, which is also kind of muddying the timelines and features in my head. It sounds like, at least for Meta-Wiki, the Wikidata access roll-out won't be happening in September, it'll be happening in October. And even in October, it will be limited to interwiki data initially. Is what's being discussed on Meta-Wiki (interwiki data access) what the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias have already had for several months?
Yes. They are getting what enwp and others have had for quite some time.
I'm really excited about the ability to do arbitrary on-wiki querying. :-)
:) Me too!
Cheers Lydia