[13:29:40] <Ionets>	 Hi
[13:31:25] <jmvanel>	 Hi! is there a joker in wikidata API ? 
[13:31:35] <jmvanel>	 Like * in   https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=gerani*&language=fr
[13:33:24] <CustosLimen_>	 plz halp: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#franchising_(Q171947)_instance_of_(P31)_business_model_(Q815823)_or_franchising_(Q171947)_subclass_of_(P279)_business_model_(Q815823)
[13:35:07] <CustosLimen_>	 jmvanel: a wildcard
[13:35:40] <CustosLimen_>	 is the word you are looking for
[13:35:44] <CustosLimen_>	 I don't know but I don't think so
[13:49:58] <jmvanel>	 wildcard yes sorry 
[13:50:26] <jmvanel>	 joker is an english french word :)
[13:50:45] <nikki>	 I'm sure there is something that does a search from the start of a string, but I can't remember what it is
[13:52:24] <jmvanel>	 I tried also SPARQL with or without the label server but that did a timeout . 
[13:59:25] <jmvanel>	 nikki, I found this https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
[14:06:46] <jmvanel>	 This is about the search box , but nothing about the web API :( 
[14:17:09] <jmvanel>	 nikki, found also this API but it does not seem to return anything useful : https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&recursivesubmodules=1#query+prefixsearch
[14:17:49] <dcausse>	 nikki: wbsearchentities is I think already searching for the beginning of the string 
[14:18:08] <dcausse>	 remove the * and it should find all entities starting with gerani
[14:18:28] <dcausse>	 labels or aliases
[14:25:08] <jmvanel>	 Indeed , dcausse I was stupid not to try !!!
[14:27:11] <nikki>	 ohh, right :D
[14:35:49] <jmvanel>	 However, it goves a priority to complete words, which is normal, but it does not take in account non ASCII characters , which is bad : https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=ch%C3%AAn&language=fr&limit=20  https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=ch%C3%AAn&language=fr&limit=20
[14:36:33] <jmvanel>	 "chên" stands for chêne (oak) 
[14:40:30] <jmvanel>	 The service behind CirrusSearch box would be worth trying, but I guess that's not a stable API ...
[14:41:49] <dcausse>	 jmvanel: wbsearchentities uses cirrus behing the scene
[14:45:17] <dcausse>	 regarding the diacritic it's scoring issue I believe, typing up to n "chên" brings Q12004 on the 4th pos
[15:24:20] <jmvanel>	 OK, these 2 things I learned should be in the doc :)
[15:27:10] <jmvanel>	 scoring issue, to say the least; Chen, although a complete word should pass behind "chêne" that has the right starting letters ... IMHO 
[16:42:28] <erentar>	 Hello
[16:42:51] <erentar>	 Who do i bother to help me write my query?
[17:52:01] <andre__>	 !ask | erentar
[17:52:09] <andre__>	 (Meh. Doesn't work here?)
[17:52:32] <andre__>	 erentar: please don't ask to ask. If anybody see your questoin and can help, they will help.
[17:52:35] <erentar>	 ok is that the dont ask to ask lecture
[17:52:39] <erentar>	 there we go
[17:53:01] <erentar>	 i was making sure this was the right place to waste pople's time
[17:55:01] <erentar>	 https://paste.gnome.org/pzorhxsyf
[17:55:03] <erentar>	 i am trying to get a table with all elements q: numbers and symbols, query does not return anthing. what am i doing wrong?
[18:10:05] <andre__>	 if it's not the right place then someone would point out a better place
[18:10:23] <andre__>	 asking a question which starts with "who" does not imply that though :)
[18:48:10] <nikki>	 erentar: you need to swap ?element and ?symbol
[18:50:25] <erentar>	 https://paste.gnome.org/pelm3iieb#line-1
[18:50:39] <erentar>	 still get no matching records found
[18:50:43] <nikki>	 oh, oops, I mean on line 3
[18:51:19] <erentar>	 nice, it works
[18:51:22] <erentar>	 thanks!
[18:51:34] <nikki>	 no problem :)
[19:06:22] <SothoTalKer_>	 nikki: hey how it's going
[19:11:47] <nikki>	 hi!
[19:11:57] <nikki>	 I did forget about your query :P
[19:16:11] <SothoTalKer_>	 of course you did :D
[20:12:12] <nikki>	 SothoTalKer_: this seems to work for the 9 digit ones https://w.wiki/RH$
[20:12:18] <nikki>	 haven't worked out how the rest work yet
[22:49:36] <SothoTalKer_>	 nice :)
[22:52:55] <SothoTalKer_>	 nikki: did you see the Lua module? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:URIutil