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Unlike DBpedia, Wikidata is not structured content extracted by parsing Wikipedia articles, but instead a structured collection of factual knowledge created by human editors.
Human editors, and many many bots.
SPARQL over Wikidata is one of the closest things to magic on the Internet. It's incomplete, the runtime is slow, it dies on too much data, but it's amazing being able to think up random questions and actually ask them, however frivolous. Stuff like "who's the most successful footballer from my home town?" or "which part of India has produced the most test cricketers?" is really easy. Makes me wish I'd taken the quan…
I will readily admit this is due to my own ignorance; I just wanted to post a point in a Reddit comment and investing a lot of time to properly learn SPARQL wasn't worth the effort, but I wish the data was more easily accessible without a fairly large time investment. WikiData is basically the only structured source for these election results that I could find (the government publishes them of course, but in a PDF that's always different).
And I'm a programmer by trade! Non-technical people will have an even harder time.
WikiData is pretty good, but I feel it could be truly fantastic if the data was more easily accessible.
SPARQL over Wikidata is one of the closest things to magic on the Internet. It's incomplete, the runtime is slow, it dies on too much data, but it's amazing being able to think up random questions and actually ask them, however frivolous. Stuff like "who's the most successful footballer from my home town?" or "which part of India has produced the most test cricketers?" is really easy. Makes me wish I'd taken the quan…
I found SPARQL pretty hard to deal with. Some time ago I wanted to make an overview of various election results to prove a certain point. The data is in there, I can see it in the UI, but I had a lot of trouble writing a script to retrieve it (so I could make a nice table and/or chart). Basically, after an hour I failed and gave up. I will readily admit this is due to my own ignorance; I just wanted to post a point i…
SPARQL over Wikidata is one of the closest things to magic on the Internet. It's incomplete, the runtime is slow, it dies on too much data, but it's amazing being able to think up random questions and actually ask them, however frivolous. Stuff like "who's the most successful footballer from my home town?" or "which part of India has produced the most test cricketers?" is really easy. Makes me wish I'd taken the quan…
I found SPARQL pretty hard to deal with. Some time ago I wanted to make an overview of various election results to prove a certain point. The data is in there, I can see it in the UI, but I had a lot of trouble writing a script to retrieve it (so I could make a nice table and/or chart). Basically, after an hour I failed and gave up. I will readily admit this is due to my own ignorance; I just wanted to post a point i…
Main website: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ Wikidata tagging documentation: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata
It's also used in OpenStreetMap - "Wikipedia for maps", referenced a lot lately on HN. Main website: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ Wikidata tagging documentation: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata
Wikidata is a fantastic data source for all sorts of applications, not just for the Wikimedia projects (infoboxes, templates, etc.). I'm also excited about the Wikifunctions project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikifunctions ) to created a large body of executable snippets that can be applied to data types. Wikidata is one of the main data sources in my Conzept encyclopedia project: https://conze.pt ( https://twit…
Like the UI a lot. Very interested to know what kind of user base you currently have and what use cases you've built it for.
The user base is still small, which is fine, as there are still many small issues to fix. I'm having a lot of fun developing this and hearing the feedback of users.
I started the project mostly for myself, to have a more integrated topic exploration tool, but things grew to also be of use to others. I think the main use case is just learning about topics of personal interest. I would like to experiment with some social features in the future (eg. ephemeral audio chat for topics).
Anything you would like to see?
Wikidata is a fantastic data source for all sorts of applications, not just for the Wikimedia projects (infoboxes, templates, etc.). I'm also excited about the Wikifunctions project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikifunctions ) to created a large body of executable snippets that can be applied to data types. Wikidata is one of the main data sources in my Conzept encyclopedia project: https://conze.pt ( https://twit…
Wikidata is a fantastic data source for all sorts of applications, not just for the Wikimedia projects (infoboxes, templates, etc.). I'm also excited about the Wikifunctions project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikifunctions ) to created a large body of executable snippets that can be applied to data types. Wikidata is one of the main data sources in my Conzept encyclopedia project: https://conze.pt ( https://twit…
What's the URL to Wikifunctions? The Wikipedia article doesn't have a link to it.
SPARQL over Wikidata is one of the closest things to magic on the Internet. It's incomplete, the runtime is slow, it dies on too much data, but it's amazing being able to think up random questions and actually ask them, however frivolous. Stuff like "who's the most successful footballer from my home town?" or "which part of India has produced the most test cricketers?" is really easy. Makes me wish I'd taken the quan…
I found SPARQL pretty hard to deal with. Some time ago I wanted to make an overview of various election results to prove a certain point. The data is in there, I can see it in the UI, but I had a lot of trouble writing a script to retrieve it (so I could make a nice table and/or chart). Basically, after an hour I failed and gave up. I will readily admit this is due to my own ignorance; I just wanted to post a point i…