Fwd: Announcing the release of the Wikidata Query Service

Dear SPARQLers,

The Wikimedia Foundation has just announced its first official live 
query service for Wikidata, based on SPARQL.

Cheers,

Markus


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Subject:  [Wikidata] Announcing the release of the Wikidata Query Service
Date:  Mon, 7 Sep 2015 15:29:02 -0700
From:  Dan Garry <dgarry@wikimedia.org>
Reply-To:  Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
<wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
To:  wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org



The Discovery Department at the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to
announce the release of the Wikidata Query Service
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/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
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL> as the query language. You can
see some example queries in the user manual
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual>.

Right now, the service is still in beta. This means that our goal
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Wikidata_Query_Service> 
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 <https://searchdata.wmflabs.org/wdqs/> to track usage
of the service, and we're in the process
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111403> 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,
wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org>.

Thanks,
Dan

-- 
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation