On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Klein,Max <[email protected]> wrote: > Joan, > This is a very cool development. I'm going to follow this closely. > > Now that the technology is here to make mass uploads, I wonder how this is > going to effect the policy of Wikidata accepting batch-uploads. > At Wikimania I remember Daniel saying that it's going to be discouraged to > import a lot of data at once. I wonder now that we have this interface, will > that change? What type of pywikidata bots are going to be allowed to run?
Hey :) Nothing changed really. Large mass uploads of data are still (initially) discouraged. We really need to be very careful especially at the beginning to not kill the Wikidata community before it even started to grow. So please let's take it slowly. It'll be the right thing in the long run. (For a related story read Robert Kaye's chapter in Open Advice btw: http://open-advice.org.) That being said, there sure are things that the community can agree on that are ok to import at the beginning (some language link sets maybe?) and this is where pywikidata comes in. And there are a lot of things in the long run that it will be useful for. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
