Install SQID

[kyao]

Install SQID browsing tool for our installation of Wikidata.

https://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/

[saggu]

I was able to clone the repository locally, change the sparql endpoint and see the updated endpoint being used.

There are a couple of things going on in SQID,

1. Searches the wikidata api to fetch results for a string.
2. Once user clicks on a search result, uses wikidata api to fetch Qnode in json format.
3. Uses the json to filter out properties, statements and uses the sparql endpoint to run the queries.
4. Also there are a bunch of json files which it uses internally to fetch some stats about the wikidata as a whole. We can try to create these json files locally(which I havent tried yet). By default, it calls the remote end point (Request URL: https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/sqid/data) to fetch the stats.

@rongpenl when you installed the wikibase on a server, does it come with an api endpoint as well. The official wikidata ebdpoint is - https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php

FYI @szeke @kyao @dgarijo

[saggu]

I am looking into whether we can make it work without having a local wikidata api endpoint

[saggu]

The file to change the endpoints is

https://github.com/Wikidata/SQID/blob/master/src/api/endpoints.ts

@rongpenl

[dgarijo]

Is it possible to make it work without the search? That is adding something like ?Q={QNODE}, where QNODE is the node to retireve in our target endpoint?