Hi, to speed things up you might also cache query results. Especially for the filters that would make the tool nicer to use. For numeric filters input fields for custom values or sliders could be cool. Overall a promising start!
Happy Hacking, M Am Fr., 25. Sept. 2020 um 12:43 Uhr schrieb Hay (Husky) <hus...@gmail.com>: > 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 > -- *M. F. Schönitzer* Community Communication Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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