Hoi,
Is this different from Special:MediaSearch ??
Thanks,
GerardM
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 15:23, Guillaume Lederrey <gleder...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> The Search Platform team will join the WIkidata office hours on July 21st
> 16:00 UTC [1]. We are looking forward to discussing Wikidata Query Service
> and anything else you might find of interest.
>
> We've been hard at work on Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) [2].
> This will be a SPARL endpoint similar to WDQS, but serving the Structured
> Data on Commons dataset. Our goal is to open a beta service, hosted on
> Wikimedia Cloud Service (WMCS) by the end of July. The service will require
> an account on Commons for authentication and will allow federation with
> WDQS. We don't have a streaming update process ready yet, the data will be
> reloaded from Commons dumps weekly for a start.
>
> As part of that work, the dumps for Structured Data on Commons are now
> available [3]. Note that the prefix used in the TTL dumps is "wd", which
> does not make much sense. We are working with WMDE on renaming the
> prefixes, but this is more complex than expected since "wd" is hardcoded in
> more places than it should be. Those prefix should only be valid in the
> local context of the dumps, so renaming them is technically a non breaking
> change. That being said, if you start using those dumps, make sure you
> don't rely on this prefix, or that you are ready for a rename [4].
>
> We are planning to dig more into the data we have to get a better
> understanding of the use cases around WDQS [5] (not much content on that
> task yet, but it is coming). Some very preliminary analysis indicates that
> less then 2% of the queries on WDQS generate more than 90% of the load.
> This is definitely something we need to better understand. We will be
> working on defining the kind of questions we need to answer, and improving
> our data collection to be able to answer those questions.
>
> We have started an internal discussion around "planning for disaster" [6].
> We want to better understand the potential failure scenarios around WDQS
> and have a plan if that worst case does happen. This will include some
> analytics work and some testing to better understand the constraints and
> what degraded mode we might still be able to provide in case of
> catastrophic failure.
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
> Guillaume
>
> [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours
> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251488
> [3] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikibase/commonswiki/
> [4]
> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikibase/commonswiki/README_commonsrdfdumps.txt
> [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257045
> [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257055
>
>
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> Guillaume Lederrey
> Engineering Manager, Search Platform
> Wikimedia Foundation
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