Dear Wikidatanions (*),
I have just drafted a little proposal for creating more tools for
external people to work with Wikidata, especially to build services on
top of its data [1]. Your feedback and support is needed.
Idea: Currently, this is quite hard for people, since we only have WDA
for reading/analysing dumps [2] and Wikidata Query as a single web
service to ask queries [3]. We should have more support for programmers
who want to load, query, analyse, and otherwise use the data. The
proposal is to start such a toolkit to enable more work with the data.
The plan is to kickstart this project with a small team using
Wikimedia's Individual Engagement program. For this we will need your
support -- feel free to add your voice to the wiki page [1]. Of course,
comments of all sorts are also great -- this email thread will be linked
from the page. If you would like to be involved with the project, that's
great too; let me know and I can add you to the proposal.
The proposal will already be submitted tomorrow, but support should also
be possible after that, I hope.
Cheers,
Markus
(*) Do we have a demonym yet? Wikipedian sounds natural, Wikidatan less
so. Maybe this should be another thread ... ;-)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit
[2] http://github.com/mkroetzsch/wda
[3] http://208.80.153.172/wdq/
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Markus Kroetzsch, Departmental Lecturer
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom
+44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/
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