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mkramer So many improvements I'd like. I want the wikidata API to be as straightforward as Freebase's used to be. Also...
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mkramer ... I would love it if sections in a story, visible in the ToC on a page, were represented as separate objects in the JSON output
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mkramer I had a huge problem last time I used the wikimedia API because different articles use diff section names, headers, dividers...
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mkramer It became a huge task to build a script that could separate out the pieces of content, which was annoying b/c wikimedia...
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mkramer ... totally knows how to separate that stuff out on the backend, and it would be super useful if it was in the response. ...
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mkramer Also, search is way too complicated, I should be able to limit search in various ways (if I want only book articles for example)...
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mkramer ...& returning response should allow should support embedding in the response, so I can get whole objects in the search response
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mkramer Right now, using wikimedia data through a search via API is a minimum of 2, sometimes 3 requests, which is painful.
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mkramer Those are the big ones! Decreasing query processing & responses would be very useful.
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mkramer Wikidata absorbed Freebase, but it is so much harder to use. Getting to parity would be huge for appliances that used Freebase.