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TheScienceMuseum / elastic-wikidata

CLI for loading Wikidata subsets (or all of it) into Elasticsearch
https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/project/heritage-connector/
MIT License
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How does it compare to CirrusSearch? #3

Closed Abbe98 closed 4 years ago

Abbe98 commented 4 years ago

Wikidata's Elasticsearch instances can be queried by the MediaWiki API using CirrusSearch, but this is entirely left out of the "Why" section of the README...

Would be interesting to see query examples one can't do with CirrusSearch.

kdutia commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the comment @Abbe98. My main reason for creating this was that we need to do bulk text searches of Wikidata (i.e. not with rate limiting), and sending the dumps to our own Elasticsearch instance was easier than setting up our own Wikidata instance.

I hadn't seen CirrusSearch before hence leaving it out of the readme, apologies!

I'll look into updating the README with a link to CirrusSearch as an alternative to this repo once I've read about it.

kdutia commented 4 years ago

See updated README