This is a suggested task for the documentation sprint during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2017.
A lot of good documentation exists about the Query Service. Still, maybe a step-by-step process to help the newcomer to write his.her first query would be appreciated. Let's get some inspiration from existing processes and create a nice and playful tool to learn how to write queries.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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| Resolved | • johl | T159215 Wikidata documentation sprint | |||
| Resolved | Lydia_Pintscher | T170071 Documentation sprint @ Wikimania hackathon 2017 | |||
| Resolved | Lea_Lacroix_WMDE | T187319 Documentation sprint @Hackathon 2018 | |||
| Resolved | Lydia_Pintscher | T159216 [Hackathon doc sprint] Beginner documentation about Wikidata | |||
| Resolved | TBurmeister | T164461 [Hackathon doc sprint] A step-by-step process for the Query Service |
Please make sure we're not creating too many half-baked docs for the same thing and instead let's improve the documentation that we have where possible.
A page already exists (and mentioned on the help portal) but quite empty for now, we should improve it: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:SPARQL/Building_a_query
Most cases you can find on blogs or "help" pages are particular cases. Focus on simple things would be a plus, create a list of wiki pages from a Wikidata page or list all people with the same family name, including wiki marckup to generate a list.
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I believe the following documentation and interactive tutorial covers the issues reported in this task, so I am resolving it. Please feel free to reopen if you disagree.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Wikidata_Query_Help
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_tutorial
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/A_gentle_introduction_to_the_Wikidata_Query_Service
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries
https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/