Re: [Cloud] Wikidata query request

2018-03-13 Thread Huji Lee
Thanks, Jaime, for your recommendation. If I understand the result of [1] correctly, there are around 3.5 million pages with a GeoNames property specified on Wikidata. I'm sure some of them are redirects, or not cities, etc. But still, going through millions of pages through API calls of 1000 at a

[Cloud] Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

2018-03-13 Thread Michael Schönitzer
Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best cont

Re: [Cloud] Wikidata query request

2018-03-13 Thread Jaime Crespo
I am not 100% sure there is a perfect way to do what you want by querying the metadata databases (I assume that is what you mean with query)- I don't think that data is metadata, but content itself, which is not on the metadata databases. Calling the wikidata query service is probably what you wan