Is the data extension supposed to work with Wikidata reconciliation in OpenRefine v 3 beta?

[wetneb]

Is the data extension supposed to work with Wikidata reconciliation in OpenRefine v 3 beta?

[wetneb]

That is surprising. Have you removed the services and added them back?

[susannaanas]

I did remove one of three, but now I removed them all and got it going. Sorry for the trouble!

I am looking for ways to edit labels and descriptions, I have yet to learn how to display them :)

[wetneb]

The data extension feature does not let you fetch descriptions or aliases yet unfortunately.

[susannaanas]

That's a pity. I must say that the Wikidata upload is GREAT, but my workflows stumble on other glitches.

[wetneb]

you can always fetch them directly with the MediaWiki API, using the add column by fetching URLs operation. Just use this expression:

"https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&format=json&props=descriptions&languages=en|fi&ids="+cell.recon.match.id

[susannaanas]

Thanks a lot! Running the call and waiting to see what happens. That saved me a lot of time, I was about to investigate that too. It is pretty slow, though. I generally use Google sheets extension for this kind of things but today it stopped working for me.

[wetneb]

You can tweak the time between consecutive requests when you start the operation (the default 5000ms is clearly too high for this sort of queries).

[susannaanas]

Thanks! I will need to parse the output and the scandics... must leave until later :-)

[wetneb]

If you struggle with parsing, I have just added support for labels, descriptions and aliases: just use "Lfi" for Finnish labels, "Den" for English description, "Ade" for German aliases.

[susannaanas]

Wow!! I will check it out soon!