I would like to be able to display a title too.

The best thing we have so far is to add a comment. Perhaps we could do something similar to #defaultView: for titles, e.g. #queryTitle:?

I was thinking of only doing this in embedded views. @Tagishsimon your original report indicates you also think this is useful for non-embedded? What do others think?

You can already do this with a #TEMPLATE with no variables (example), though the presentation could probably still be improved.

link this to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185476 ... both presentation and specification of the title within the SPARQL could be improved. Arguably per T185476 and its children, there is considerable room for improvement of, clarity of configuration of, and documentation of charts. Right now it's a dark art.

Fair enough. Ok then let's make this work for embedded and non-embedded views.

It also needs to display the title in the page title. This is what my tab list looks like for the window I have SPARQL queries in:

Without updating the page title, it's near impossible to find a particular query in my open windows, in my browser history or in my bookmarks. (I have so many open because it's time-consuming to work out which ones are queries I want to save and which ones were links I opened or queries that I don't need any more - I have to read through each query to find out what it does before I can do anything else with it.)

When I remember, I've been using comments of the form #queryTitle: ... (copying the style of defaultView as I mentioned in my previous comment) and also made myself a little browser extension a while back which updates the page title. The code for the Firefox version is at https://github.com/nikkiwd/wdqsqt, seems I never added the Chrome version.

In T225883#7013447, @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE wrote:

You can already do this with a #TEMPLATE with no variables (example), though the presentation could probably still be improved.

I don't see a title on that page...?

In T225883#7022505, @Nikki wrote:

In T225883#7013447, @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE wrote:

You can already do this with a #TEMPLATE with no variables (example), though the presentation could probably still be improved.

I don't see a title on that page...?

@Lydia_Pintscher

There's some discussion about whether the parameter should be #queryTitle or #title. Both are mentioned in the original report.

Which would you prefer?

Ah good catch. I was thinking #queryTitle first but thinking some more about it #title is probably better. This would keep the query shorter and make it a little less likely to run into limits for URL shortening.

Change 681940 had a related patch set uploaded (by Adamham; author: Adamham):

[wikidata/query/gui@master] Add a parameter using comments to the query to allow for a title

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/681940

Change 681940 merged by jenkins-bot:

[wikidata/query/gui@master] Add a parameter using comments to the query to allow for a title

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/681940

Added to gui-deploy in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikidata/query/gui-deploy/+/697566, should be deployed within half an hour or so.

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It seems this feature is still undocumented (discussed in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:SPARQL_query_service#title:). after 5 months In my opinion it is a waste of developer time to develop something, and then don't make sure it is documented so the users can learn about it and use it - what isn't known and therefore not used , isn't useful. You should prioritize the documentation side of WDQS more. Also the wikibase:limitContinuations predicate in the MWAPI service has been undocumented for years, and many of the different result view parameters are just mentioned without explanation.