Hey Yaron, comments inline. On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:15 PM Yaron Koren <ya...@wikiworks.com> wrote: > - I agree that it would be great to have autocompletion within the "select > class" input. Similarly, I agree that it would be great to have free text > inputs to let users specify arbitrary values when choosing filters and filter > values, again with autocompletion, in the style of your VizQuery tool. These > wouldn't replace the current interface, which just involves clicking, but I > think they would be a nice complement to it. We didn't implement any > autocompletion, in part because we didn't know how to do it, so it might be > nice to steal some of your SDSearch code for that purpose. You could make a combination of a Vue autosuggest component (i would suggest vue-simple-suggest) and the wbsearchentities API method to get the suggestions.
> - It's true that queries can take a long time, especially for the classes > with millions of items (like "human") and especially before a lot of filters > have been applied. Using the API could be nice, if that works faster - I > didn't know that was an option. Getting the Q code first, then the label, > could also help with another big "to-do" item, which is being able to display > items that don't have a label in the current language. Right now, the > language is always English, and most Wikidata items do seem to have an > English-language label, but there are still a lot of gaps. For example, there > are 22,000 items whose class is "literary work" and whose genre is "Tang > poetry", but only 20 (!) of them at the moment have an English-language label: > > https://wikidatawalkabout.org/?c=Q7725634&f.P7937=Q482&f.P136=Q3236984 > > And, as I'm sure you know, the overall labelling coverage is much worse for > all non-English languages. It would be great to get the item code first, then > display the item in whatever language label is set for it. Yes, this is always a bit of an issue. Also, it's nice to offer the interface in multiple languages (try https://tooltranslate.toolforge.org/ for that), so you could use that as the preferred label language, and then fetch other languages as well as a fallback. > That's also good to know about your "Tools Directory"! A pretty neat > resource. We'll work on getting Wikidata Walkabout registered there. Awesome! Kind regards, -- Hay _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
