Hello Markus, Fredo, Julian, Michael and Lydia, I'm writing to follow up on the following, Markus -
"You are invited to contribute code/feature requests/use cases. If you have a concrete task that you would like to solve, please let us know, and we will see what we can do " - vis-a-vis WUaS. I'll email you off list about this (but I don't have all your email addresses). Hoping, too, for a positive reply. best, Scott On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Markus Krötzsch < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chinmay, > > > On 21/02/14 11:24, Chinmay Naik wrote: > >> Hello Markus, >> >> Glad to see the wikidata toolkit project has kicked off. >> >> As a previous user of wikidata and pywikipedia(knowing its >> shortcomings), i fully support the project. >> >> I would like to get involved and contribute to the toolkit. I have >> forked on github and i am currently setting up, working my way around. >> Would ping back to u if i get stuck. >> >> Hoping for a positive reply. >> > > Great to hear that. Github makes it very easy to contribute (fork, modify, > send pull request, and have us merge your code). So technically, you are > all set. > > The more important question is what you want to work on. It is probably > best to look into functionality that is of interest to you. The things we > are currently working on are the assigned issues in our issue tracker. > Mainly, Fredo and I are working to get dump file download and parsing done > ASAP, Julian is working on basic data structures that should help with > indexing later on, and Michael is looking at implementing initial MediaWiki > API bindings. > > There are many open questions regarding the MW API implementation, so > maybe this could be a good place to contribute if you are already > experienced with that. Initially, we only want to support read access, but > write access would also be nice at some point. We probably will organize > the API code on a per-module basis for low-level access, and then provide > some higher level wrappers for more convenient access. Due to the modular > nature of the API, this work is easy to split. > > Other open issues that are not worked on yet are related to serialisation > in useful dump format (RDF, "official" JSON, MediaWiki dump XML [useful to > dump part of the data in a file that can be re-imported into another > MediaWiki]). > > But maybe you have other ideas too. > > Cheers, > > Markus > > > >> >> --Chinmay >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Markus Kroetzsch >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> The new Wikidata Toolkit project has started this week, so here is a >> brief update. You are invited to participate and to comment. Early >> users will enjoy a special first-level support: if you have an >> interesting use-case for our project, we will help you get started >> and prioritize your requirements. >> >> Wikidata Toolkit is going to be a Java library to work with Wikidata >> (and Wikibase in general). It will allow you to load, query, and >> analyse the data, and to export it to a variety of formats. >> >> Key facts: >> >> * Homepage: https://www.mediawiki.org/__wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit> >> * Code: https://github.com/Wikidata/__Wikidata-Toolkit >> >> <https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit> >> * Planned milestones: >> https://github.com/Wikidata/__Wikidata-Toolkit/issues/__milestones >> >> <https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/issues/milestones> >> * Project plan (high level): >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/__wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata___Toolkit >> >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit> >> >> Our current team consists of four people: Fredo Erxleben, Julian >> Mendez, Michael Günther, and myself. Development is supported by the >> Wikimedia Foundation and by the German Research Foundation. The >> project is initially planned for six months. >> >> You are invited to contribute code/feature requests/use cases. If >> you have a concrete task that you would like to solve, please let us >> know, and we will see what we can do. Our first release 0.1 should >> be able to create data exports in RDF and maybe in other formats >> from the internal Wikidata dump files. If you need Wikidata in other >> formats, please let us know. >> >> Our later releases will be able to load data and add query >> capabilities that allow you to analyse the data. Again, your >> requirements are welcome. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Markus >> >> >> -- >> Markus Kroetzsch >> Faculty of Computer Science >> Technische Universität Dresden >> +49 351 463 38486 >> http://korrekt.org/ >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] >> > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/__mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/02/wild-cosmos-im-excited-for-potential-of.html - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010.
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