The point I wanted to make (following your example), is that the Wikidata Query "All novels by Douglas Adams" is equivalent to the item "Category:Novels by Douglas Adams" [1]. In other cases there will be even 3 items representing the same information: the wd query, the category item, and a "list of..." item. So I'm just wondering if this complexity is really needed for structural/technical reasons.
Maybe there is an easier way instead of linking to the wd query with a "category's main query" property? Cheers, Micru [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8687492 On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:01 PM, David Cuenca <dacu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to make you aware of this RFC started by Gerard: > > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Define_lists_on_both_%22Wikimedia_lists%22_and_%22Wikimedia_categories%22 > > > > It is interesting because in the end, what is the difference between a > list, > > a category, and a query? Not much, really. > > > > I'm curious to know if the approach taken with queries will be the same > as > > the WDQ > > http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=6573995 > > > > Items like "List of..." or "Category:" would have some use, but the > > development notes don't state if this is the intended path > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries > > > > Any thoughts about it? > > I've been trying to understand the RfC 3 times now and still fail. So > I can't answer your questions unfortunately. > > The short and simplified version of how complex queries will work: > * someone defines a query on a page in a special query namespace (eg > "everything that has author = Douglas Adams") > * the result of the query is a list of items matching the query > * the Wikipedias can include the result of the query and visualize it > in certain ways on a page. (eg the wikitext of the article "List of > works by Douglas Adams" would have a call to include the query result > from Wikidata) > > > Cheers > Lydia > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > Product Manager for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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