Would it help if I add the following header to every large batch of queries?
####### # access: (http://query.wikidata.org or https://query.wikidata.org/bigdata/namespace/wdq/sparql?query={SPARQL} .) # contact: email, acountname, twittername etc # bot: True/False # ......... ###### On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Markus Kroetzsch < markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de> wrote: > Dear SPARQL users, > > We are starting a research project to investigate the use of the Wikidata > SPARQL Query Service, with the goal to gain insights that may help to > improve Wikidata and the query service [1]. Currently, we are still waiting > for all data to become available. Meanwhile, we would like to ask for your > input. > > Preliminary analyses show that the use of the SPARQL query service varies > greatly over time, presumably because power users and software tools are > running large numbers of queries. For a meaningful analysis, we would like > to understand such high-impact biases in the data. We therefore need your > help: > > (1) Are you a SPARQL power user who sometimes runs large numbers of > queries (over 10,000)? If so, please let us know how your queries might > typically look so we can identify them in the logs. > > (2) Are you the developer of a tool that launches SPARQL queries? If so, > then please let us know if there is any way to identify your queries. > > If (1) or (2) applies to you, then it would be good if you could include > an identifying comment into your SPARQL queries in the future, to make it > easier to recognise them. In return, this would enable us to provide you > with statistics on the usage of your tool [2]. > > Further feedback is welcome. > > Cheers, > > Markus > > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_Wikid > ata_Queries > > [2] Pending permission by the WMF. Like all Wikimedia usage data, the > query logs are under strict privacy protection, so we will need to get > clearance before sharing any findings with the public. We hope, however, > that there won't be any reservations against publishing non-identifying > information. > > -- > Prof. Dr. Markus Kroetzsch > Knowledge-Based Systems Group > Faculty of Computer Science > TU Dresden > +49 351 463 38486 > https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/KBS/en > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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