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TASK DESCRIPTION As per a discussion we had during WikidataCon: **What's the problem?** The current Examples page / section for WQS does not serve beginners well. It's, in fact, mostly a repository for cool queries of all sorts, many of them way too difficult for beginners to understand. Beginners to the WQS and SPARQL would mostly benefit instead from a set of examples that slowly introduced new features in a well thought-out manner, including a lot of comments about what the query does and how - what the query is actually about isn't particularly important. Attempts to do this with the Examples section have been met with resistance though, because people do not want to lose all the neat queries they have added to the current examples page (some people even seem to use this section as basically a cross-computer "bookmark a query" option to quickly access them from everywhere. **Proposed solution** Rather than fighting the current users on this, we should meet them halfway. We should add a new section by the Examples one on top of the WQS, named "Cool Queries" or something to that effect (or possibly rename it to "Example Queries" and add a new button "Beginner Examples"?) and move the current queries there, so that both sets of help can coexist. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236611 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: reosarevok Cc: Aklapper, LucasWerkmeister, Harmonia_Amanda, reosarevok, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Jonas, Xmlizer, jkroll, Smalyshev, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, Mbch331
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