keskiviikko 5. marraskuuta 2014

Wikidata

I'm starting slowly to understand the possibilities of Wikidata. First time there is a possibility to really *use* the data stored in the Wikipedia and other Wikis.

I collected some links that were useful for me while I was/am finding my way to the sources of Wikidata.

What is it all about:
http://korrekt.org/page/Wikidata:_A_Free_Collaborative_Knowledge_Base

wikidata with pretty face:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/

Search related

Wikidata Query (WDQ for short):
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=72
http://wdq.wmflabs.org/api_documentation.html
http://wdq.wmflabs.org/wdq/

traditional Wikidata API:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php

autolist:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html

Queries:

How to search by an article title in certain wikipedia:
http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=enwiki&titles=Alvar%20Aalto&props=sitelinks&format=xml

Search from items:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=Ky%C3%B6sti%20Kallio&language=en

Get sitelinks for a certain item:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q42&props=sitelinks&format=xml

More stuff:

http://notconfusing.com/3-ways-to-access-wikidata-data-until-it-can-be-done-properly/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wikidata

How to see a property in Wikidata:
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P610