Fwd: [Wikidata] Announcing the release of the Wikidata Query Service

[Lydia Pintscher]

Hey everyone :)

One of the big pieces many of you were missing for migrating to
Wikidata is a proper way to query the data. I wanted to let you know
that we've now released a first version of this. I'd appreciate your
testing and feedback. See below for more information.
The other big blocker was support for quantities with units. Unit
support will be rolled out to Wikidata tomorrow.

I hope with those two we're getting quite a bit closer towards making
Wikidata usable and useful for Freebase users.


Cheers
Lydia


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:29 AM
Subject: [Wikidata] Announcing the release of the Wikidata Query Service
To: wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org


The Discovery Department at the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to
announce the release of the Wikidata Query Service! You can find the
interface for the service at https://query.wikidata.org.

The Wikidata Query Service is designed to let users run queries on the
data contained in Wikidata. The service uses SPARQL as the query
language. You can see some example queries in the user manual.

Right now, the service is still in beta. This means that our goal is
to monitor of the service usage and collect feedback about what people
think should be next. To do that, we've created the Wikidata Query
Service dashboard to track usage of the service, and we're in the
process of setting up a feedback mechanism for users of the service.
Once we've got monitored the usage of the service for a while and got
user feedback, we'll decide on what's next for development of the
service.

If you have any feedback, suggestions, or comments, please do send an
email to the Discovery Department's public mailing list,
wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thanks,
Dan

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Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

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