This repository is a fork of Wikimedia's release of the Wikidata Query GUI, with adaptions required to make it work with Rhizome's ArtBase, an independently operated instance of Wikibase.
The goal of this fork was to make all critical features of the Wikidata Query Service work for users of the ArtBase:
- Support Rhizome's custom URL prefixes in the SPARQL text editor, including support for autocompletion.
- Make the GUI query builder work with Rhizome's Wikibase.
- Support displaying local images in addition to Commons images in query results.
- Provide custom sample queries.
- Customize the GUI to at least remove elements that do not work / seem abandoned by developers, or are too confusing for our purposes.
- Light branding.
- Be a drop-in replacement for wdqs container in the official Wikibase docker setup.
This fork is based on initial work by Professional.Wiki, which was submitted to Wikimedia's Gerrit source code platform, but not merged.
🔥 All code changes are annotated so that the customizations can be abstracted into configuration in the future. The annotations present where the query GUI's code would need to introduce variables or configuration files.