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Anything that gives a boost to Wikidata is great. Being able to run queries over wiki remains one of the most magical things on the internet: https://query.wik

by thom 6y ago

Anything that gives a boost to Wikidata is great. Being able to run queries over wiki remains one of the most magical things on the internet: https://query.wikidata.org/ https://query.wikidata.org/

yorwba 6y ago
I recently learned that words and translations from Wiktionary are in Wikidata's graph as well, which enables e.g. this simple lemmatizer: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ordia/text-to-lexemes https://tools.wmflabs.org/ordia/text-to-lexemes (The Wikidata query it uses is linked at the bottom.)
- mormegil 6y ago
  Lexical content on Wikidata is (unfortunately) separate and independent of Wiktionary. Same topic, different execution (and much smaller coverage at the moment). https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data
simple_phrases 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this, didn't know it existed.
visarga 6y ago
It's magic but the SparQL language is very hard to learn.
- machiaweliczny 6y ago
  There are some libs that simplify access like for example https://github.com/molybdenum-99/reality https://github.com/molybdenum-99/reality
- meej 6y ago
  It's the identifiers that make querying Wikidata difficult, IMO. SPARQL is pretty easy, certainly no more difficult than SQL. It might even be easier than SQL since there are no joins.
  - bawolff 6y ago
    I found the hardest part of sparql is forgeting my sql knowledge. Its a very different query language than sql, but some constructs look similar, and its very easy to confuse yourself thinking the construct does a similar thing as sql when it really doesnt
  - mmarx 6y ago
    > It might even be easier than SQL since there are no joins. Every dot between Triple Patterns in a Basic Graph Pattern is actually a JOIN; you just don't need to worry about using them. As for the identifiers, you get used to them if you work regularly with them, and query.wikidata.org actually has completion for identifiers if you press CTRL-Space.
    - meej 6y ago
      Right, the joins are in the graph.

by thom 6y ago

Anything that gives a boost to Wikidata is great. Being able to run queries over wiki remains one of the most magical things on the internet: https://query.wikidata.org/ https://query.wikidata.org/

yorwba 6y ago

I recently learned that words and translations from Wiktionary are in Wikidata's graph as well, which enables e.g. this simple lemmatizer: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ordia/text-to-lexemes https://tools.wmflabs.org/ordia/text-to-lexemes (The Wikidata query it uses is linked at the bottom.)

mormegil 6y ago
Lexical content on Wikidata is (unfortunately) separate and independent of Wiktionary. Same topic, different execution (and much smaller coverage at the moment). https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data

simple_phrases 6y ago

Thanks for sharing this, didn't know it existed.

visarga 6y ago

It's magic but the SparQL language is very hard to learn.

machiaweliczny 6y ago
There are some libs that simplify access like for example https://github.com/molybdenum-99/reality https://github.com/molybdenum-99/reality
meej 6y ago
It's the identifiers that make querying Wikidata difficult, IMO. SPARQL is pretty easy, certainly no more difficult than SQL. It might even be easier than SQL since there are no joins.
- bawolff 6y ago
  I found the hardest part of sparql is forgeting my sql knowledge. Its a very different query language than sql, but some constructs look similar, and its very easy to confuse yourself thinking the construct does a similar thing as sql when it really doesnt
- mmarx 6y ago
  > It might even be easier than SQL since there are no joins. Every dot between Triple Patterns in a Basic Graph Pattern is actually a JOIN; you just don't need to worry about using them. As for the identifiers, you get used to them if you work regularly with them, and query.wikidata.org actually has completion for identifiers if you press CTRL-Space.
  - meej 6y ago
    Right, the joins are in the graph.