Long before we had https://query.wikidata.org/ @Magnus created Wikidata Query ( http://wdq.wmflabs.org/ ). WDQ will be shut down at some point in the future. This is the task to track that. Before this can happen, tools should be switched and users informed so the shutting down of the service doesn't cause a lot disruption.
Other tasks that need to happen before this can be done can be made blocking for this one.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T153612 Retire and remove module labs_debrepo | |||
| Resolved | Multichill | T153439 Sunset of WDQ | |||
| Resolved | Magnus | T153442 Listeriabot should stop accepting old style wdq syntax in Template:Wikidata list | |||
| Resolved | Magnus | T153441 Deprecate WDQ in Template:Wikidata list and switch remaining lists | |||
| Declined | None | T153444 Add deprecation warning when using WDQ in pywikibot | |||
| Declined | None | T135592 WikiDataQuery bulk loads all items in stream/file cache instead of iterating | |||
| Declined | None | T122112 The script "replace" terminated due to a redirect created shortly before the script started to execute | |||
| Declined | None | T104780 wikidataquery STRING unicode issues | |||
| Declined | None | T72983 wikidataquery tests win32 py3 error | |||
| Resolved | Magnus | T153623 find an alternative for bulk use of Autolist2 | |||
| Resolved | Ricordisamoa | T122706 Create a WDQS-based ElementProvider | |||
| Resolved | bd808 | T169653 Redirect wdq.wmflabs.org to query.wikidata.org |
In T143349#2963021 @yuvipanda shutdown a VM. Looks like http://wdq.wmflabs.org/stats and all queries are giving a time out now. Not sure it's related.
No, I shut down the VM that was being used before wdq got its own project, so it should be unrelated.
I started it back up just in case, but see no difference. Also restarted the wdq-mm service
If you can see http://wdq.wmflabs.org/ then the WDQ server is up and running. If the stats fail, that's an internal problem. I will look into it later, but won't have the time for several hours.
OK, so I couldn't get it to work again easily. WDQ been broken for weeks now, and I had exactly one single person ask about it, but I could successfully upgrade them to SPARQL.
Maybe we could just officially retire WDQ now?
I agree. We've been gentle, people know that they should use sparql. Let's do the clean up. Would you agree to have http://wdq.wmflabs.org/ 301 -> https://query.wikidata.org/ ?
Can you do T153442 Magnus? I'll have a look at Pywikibot and do some clean up on Wikidata.
Yes, that redirect sounds sensible. Could someone do that on the VM config please, or do I have to change WDQ source code?
@Magnus : Do you need to do any server decommissioning or anything else as part of this sunset? Probably need a task for that and a task to clean up the wdq project on labs.
@Multichill AFAICT it's only wdq-mm-01 left in the wdq-mm project. Switched off since April 6.