Hey Jeroen, An often-cited complaint to me about the Wikidata API is that it's obscure and hard to use. Simple things, like needing the QID of a page rather than being able to give it a URL of a page from a client wiki, can make a big difference to third parties that aren't super familiar with Wikidata. So, this looks really cool! Thanks for working on it. :-)
Dan On 30 November 2015 at 05:55, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've created a very rough REST API for Wikidata and am looking for your > feedback. > > * About this API: http://queryr.wmflabs.org > * Documentation: http://queryr.wmflabs.org/about/docs > * API root: http://queryr.wmflabs.org/api > > At present this is purely a demo. The data it serves is stale and > potentially incomplete, the endpoints and formats they use are very much > liable to change, the server setup is not reliable and I'm not 100% sure > I'll continue with this little project. > > The main thing I'm going for with this API compared to the existing one is > greater ease of use for common use cases. Several factors make this a lot > easier to do in a new API than in the existing one: no need the serve all > use cases, no need to retain compatibility with existing users and no > framework imposed restrictions. You can read more about the difference on > the website. > > You are invited to comment on the concept and on the open questions > mentioned on the website. > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com > Software craftsmanship advocate > ~=[,,_,,]:3 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
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