Markus, I already cast in my vote of support for you, but I had the same question. If you could clarify the boundaries between what you are doing and what wikidata is doing directly, that would be very helpful.
-Ben On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Klein,Max <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Markus, > > Your draft proposal, seems so obvious when I read it, but I would have > never thought about proposing it myself. Despite the fact that my research > is cited as an example of a motivating capability, and that it was 2 weeks > of needless headache to code, I had always thought that magical "Phase 3" > was coming to solve our query woes. I don't see that highlighted in your > IEG. In fact from what I know, there are still plans from the official > Wikidata team to build advanced query functionality. Although I do remember > Denny saying that the team was scrapping the "Phase" development paradigm, > so maybe I missed something along the way. > > Anyway, I think you should address more the fact that this work is > ostensibly planned from the main Wikidata grant, and why this extra work - > or extra attention - is needed in addition. > > Ps. Wikidatian, or Wikidatum are my faves so far. > > Maximilian Klein > Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC > +17074787023 > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] < > [email protected]> on behalf of Markus Krötzsch < > [email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 5:11 AM > To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. > Subject: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata Toolkit: call for feedback/support > > 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/ > > -- > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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