Re: [Wikidata] Overload of query.wikidata.org (Guillaume Lederrey)

I've been using wdtaxonomy happily for many months on my macbook running 10.14.5. Starting yesterday, every call I make (e.g., "wdtaxonomy -c Q5") produces an immediate "SPARQL request failed" message. Might these requests be blocked now because of th

Re: [Wikidata] Overload of query.wikidata.org (Guillaume Lederrey)

I've been using wdtaxonomy happily for many months on my macbook. Starting yesterday, every call I make (e.g., "wdtaxonomy -c Q5") produces an immediate "SPARQL request failed" message. Might these requests be blocked now because of the new WDQS polic

[Wikidata] searching for Wikidata items

What's the best way to search Wikidata for items whose name or alias matches a string? The search available via pywikibot seems to only find a match if the search string is a prefix of an item's name or alias, so searching for "Bush" does not return any of the the George Bush items. I don't want