Hoi,
In Reasonator we now support calendars [1] It does show you things like
people who were born / died on that date, events under way on that date ..
Play with and notice that longer periods are also supported. Some longer
periods may take some time but we have a waiting bar for you..It does
support any of the languages that we support. It uses Wikidata information
so if your favourite person or event is not mentioned. Just add the details
in Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM
PS three cheers for Magnus
[1]
On 30 January 2014 19:50, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Yuri Astrakhan
<yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, I am thinking of implementing a
#CATQUERY <query>
magic keyword for the category pages.
When this keyword is present, the category page would execute a query
against the search backend instead of normal category behavior and show
result as if those pages were actually marked with this category.
For example, this would allow Greek Philosophers category page to be
quickly redefined as
a cross-section of greeks & philosophers categories:
#CATQUERY incategory:Greek incategory:Philosopher
Obviously the community will be able to define much more elaborate
queries,
including the ordering (will be supported by the
new search backend)
In the future this will be possible using Wikidata and queries. My
dream is that categories will to a very large extend go away then and
be replaced with better Wikidata-based tools. I'd _really_ like us not
to introduce more incentives to use categories like this one. Also
it'd be quite a source for confusion to have both.
Indeed. I think it would be very shortsighted to introduce any sort of new
syntax here for this right now as proposed.
There's lots of exciting query opportunities coming with Wikidata as Lydia
says (which will very likely end up using Elasticsearch in some manner).
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Category intersection proposals seem to appear on this list about once
every 2 years as far as i remember. Usually they dont succede because
nobody ends up writing any efficient code to implement it.
Yep, we've been here before. Because category intersection isn't easy with
the schema we've got. However, it's incredibly trivial to do in
Elasticsearch.
So I imagine if we invest more effort in helping Wikidata expand its syntax
and uses we'll likely end up with what Yuri's wanting--if maybe in a
different
form.
I'll also note we've already solved category intersection in Cirrus ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%221941+births%22+…
-Chad
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