Talk:Wikidata Query Service/User Manual

Item count
How can I just count the number of items that match a certain query? I mean, I get the total with the result set, but if the total is very large, the browser tab explodes, and loading the entire dataset is unnecessary anyway, since all I want is the number.

I tried to use SPARQL's COUNT but got a syntax error. grepping the User Manual for 'count' returned no results either. I'm guessing this is a FAQ, so perhaps an answer should be added to the manual, even if it is "currently you can't". Ijon (talk) 22:01, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

ranks
Is there a way to take ranks into account, like ignoring deprecated statements in d:Wikidata:Database reports/items with P569 greater than P570. --Zolo (talk) 08:16, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Sitelinks
The manual is still missing how to get sitelinks. And is it possible to get only the sitelinks of a certain namespace? --Tobias1984 (talk) 13:05, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I remember writing such a query and posting it to the #wikidata IRC channel, but I couldn't easily recreate it. The problem is that the contains function does not directly work on the URLs. Currently I'm a bit too swamped to search in the logs. -- Jan Zerebecki 14:30, 1 June 2016 (UTC)