> There is no stable release of the Wikibase Query functionality yet, and even > in the development branch, the feature set is far short of what I guess you > want to use.
If I can make a simple query on a single property to narrow down the list of items to something useful, I can use the Wikidata API plus processing within my own software to query things further. That with a healthy amount of caching so that performance isn't awful, should mean that I require only minimal functionality. I just need to be able to do something like: SELECT `qid` FROM Wikibase WHERE `Instance Of` = 'Elephant'; Using that list and the Wikibase API, I can do processing on my own of the returned data and take it from there. > One thing that is not entirely clear to me is if you want to > query data from Wikidata.org, or from your own Wikibase Repository instance. My own Wikibase Repository instance. I believe that I can use https://wdq.wmflabs.org/ plus the API to query from Wikidata if I need to. > In any case, have you considered Semantic MediaWiki for your use case? > http://semantic-mediawiki.org/ Yes. I believe that Wikibase fits the use requirements a little bit better. >> Any help would be appreciated, it looks like Wikibase documentation for >> reusers is not terribly great yet. > > Indeed. We have essentially no user documentation on the features of the > software that is not specific to Wikidata.org. Then again, we also do not > have stable releases or usable release notes for our main applications > (Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client) suitable for third party users. I > hope we can improve these things in the near future, though one has to hold > into account that third party users are not amongst the first priorities of > the main developer of the Wikibase software, the Wikidata team. Certainly! I wasn't expecting there to be much out there and I completely understand that the priorities of the team are with Wikidata and not with Third Party reuse. If I can figure out how to get everything installed and running, I'd be more than happy to write up a how-to so that other third party reusers will have an easier time in the future. Thank you, Derric Atzrott _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
