15,627
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 1:
Line 1: + + Line 17:
Line 19: + + +
no edit summary
= Some Vocabulary =
[http://www.wikiedia.org Wikipedia] is an online encyclopedia running software called MediaWiki. You might have seen websites before that look like Wikipedia. They run MediaWiki.
[http://www.wikiedia.org Wikipedia] is an online encyclopedia running software called MediaWiki. You might have seen websites before that look like Wikipedia. They run MediaWiki.
One can also qualify a statement through a "qualifier", and add a "reference" for a statement.
One can also qualify a statement through a "qualifier", and add a "reference" for a statement.
= Technology =
Wikibase uses a SQL database, like other MediaWiki extensions. My understanding is that it implements a few additional types of pages, like Item and Property. This SQL database can be accessed fairly directly [https://wiki.personaldata.io/wiki/api.php through the API]. You can read and write through this API. However in order to use [[Help:SPARQL]], this SQL is fed into a Blazegraph triplestore, thanks to the ''updater'', which runs at (ir)regular intervals. '''It is very important to understand that the information goes one way and only one way from the SQL database to the Blazegraph database'''. From there the data can be [[Help:Query|queried]] in different additional ways.