Thanks for the pointers about the new work around Semantic MediaWiki and Wikibases. I have used Semantic MediaWiki and used the builtin query facility and they are very useful. There are a few external tools for aggregation with Wikibases. Magnus has Literia that works on Wikidata to build tables with Wikidata information from SPARQL queries. Scholia works currently only on Wikidata and has some drill down, e.g., machine learning in Denmark can be shown (or any other country-topic combination). https://scholia.toolforge.org/country/Q35/topic/Q2539 Synia, a Literia-Scholia inspired project can work with Wikibases. For instance, a "car model" aggregation is here: https://synia.toolforge.org/#carmodel and an overview of language is here: https://synia.toolforge.org/#language best regards Finn Årup Nielsen On 27/10/2023 06.38, Yaron Koren wrote: > Hello, > > We at the consulting company WikiWorks are neither Wikibase users nor > developers (other than having created some tools around SPARQL queries), > but we do think quite a lot about user interface relating to structured > data, especially within MediaWiki. Recently, we have been thinking about > how to improve the Wikibase interface, to get around its limitations - > such as the lack of on-wiki queries. We realized that there are already > tools that can help with some of these challenges, and other tools that > it would be a good idea to create. We put all our thoughts together into > one proposed suite, which we named "Enhanced Wikibase". You can read > about it here: > > https://wikiworks.com/enhanced-wikibase.html > <https://wikiworks.com/enhanced-wikibase.html> > > Hopefully these ideas will be helpful to anyone trying to make their > Wikibase installation easier to use. Any questions or comments are also > welcome. > > -Yaron > > -- > WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com > <http://wikiworks.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikibase Community User Group mailing list -- wikibaseug(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikibaseug-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

One other tool that seems like it would be worth including in the discussion there is LinkedWiki: https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkedWiki It can also create a table or a map from a SPARQL query, and related Lua functionally. Regarding your proposal at the end, it reminds me of Cradle, which can use EntitySchemas to define types for creation; e.g. https://furry.wikibase.cloud/tools/cradle/?#/shex/E2 Perhaps it would be worth expanding that project to editing instead? The source is MIT-licensed: https://github.com/magnusmanske/cradle <https://furry.wikibase.cloud/tools/cradle/?#/shex/E2> I agree it would be useful to have these tools more integrated into the UI itself, rather than as a constellation of clunky-looking add-ons. -- Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry - WikiFur.com