Re: [Wikidata] #WikidataBirthday present: new release of Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on

2016-11-01 Thread David Lowe
Yes, I'll keep playing with it, it's already saved me dozens of hours of work, thanks. Now, just 25 letters of the alphabet to go! *David Lowe | The New York Public Library**Specialist II, Photography Collection* *Photographers' Identities Catalog * On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1

Re: [Wikidata] #WikidataBirthday present: new release of Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on

2016-11-01 Thread Thomas Steiner
Hi again, > I find the WIKISEARCH a bit overly permissive for general use, but it did > find some useful matches. The underlying Wikipedia API request is to the best of my understanding essentially the same as a regular on-Wikipedia search. You might get better results by setting the optional sec

Re: [Wikidata] #WikidataBirthday present: new release of Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on

2016-11-01 Thread David Lowe
Thanks again, Tom. I find the WIKISEARCH a bit overly permissive for general use, but it did find some useful matches. These tools are very helpful! d *David Lowe | The New York Public Library**Specialist II, Photography Collection* *Photographers' Identities Catalog * On

[Wikidata] Birthday: Wikibase documentation and artworks

2016-11-01 Thread Léa Lacroix
Hello all, In development, writing documentation is as important as building new features. That's why Ladsgroup and Jonas worked on the *technical documentation about Wikibase* for the birthday! Both PHP and JS

Re: [Wikidata] #WikidataBirthday present: new release of Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on

2016-11-01 Thread Thomas Steiner
Hi David, I made some additions to your document (red column headers). This shows the workflow to first search, then lookup the qid, and then the WIkidata fact "instance of". I will add the descriptions to a new function WIKIDATADESCRIPTIONS, let me work on that. It is easily possible via the API