On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Sven Manguard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Obviously I cannot speak for the development team, but my observation has
> been that the development schedule for Wikidata is rather malleable. I can't

Correct :)

> be sure because I don't remember having ever seen a formal order of
> development/deployment priorities, but I believe that things have been

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan

> bumped up and down in the priorities order based on community request. If
> the ability to access Wikidata data directly - like this task would require
> - is something that has broad support, I would certainly encourage you to
> gather that support in one place and present it to the Wikidata community
> and the development team.
>
> Much like every Wikipedia article exists because someone decided that the
> subject matter was important enough to warrant them writing article on it,
> every feature (and piece of information) on Wikidata is there because
> someone decided that it was important enough to add.

Arbitrary access is currently at position 8 in the above plan. Given
that we've already started working on basically everything before it I
don't think we can bump it up a lot more tbh.


Cheers
Lydia

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