We'd love to hear what you think about the proposed REST API for Wikibase, so please remember to give us your feedback if you haven't done so already: Wikidata:REST_API_feedback_round <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API_feedback_round>
This feedback round will run until next week November 10th. Many thanks for your time! -Mohammed On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 10:15 AM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We regularly get feedback that Wikidata (and Wikibase in general) needs an > API that’s easier to understand and use in order to get more people to > build tools that use data from Wikidata and other Wikibase instances. The > existing action API has several problems. The biggest ones are that it’s > not a widely used standard, not versioned and that it is not very well > suited for Wikibase’ structured data (as opposed to MediaWiki’s usual > wikitext). Over the last weeks we’ve looked at ways to improve the > situation and have come up with a draft for a REST API for Wikibase. We’d > love to have your feedback on it. > > *What we want to achieve with it:* > > - Provide a more industry-standard and versioned way to access and > manipulate data in Wikibase. This will make it easier for programmers to > get started building tools with and around Wikidata and other Wikibase > instances. > - Provide an API that is more tailored to the Wikibase data model to, > for example, make it possible to get exactly the part of an Entity you need > instead of the whole entity. > - Solve a number of issues in the current API that are easier to solve > with REST. > > *A few things to keep in mind:* > > - This is only touching the Wikibase-specific API modules, not any of > the others that MediaWiki provides. > - We’ve started with the specification around Items and Properties. > Once we are sure the direction is good, we will look at other parts of the > data model and content like Lexemes and MediaInfo. > - For existing users of the action API: Nothing changes for you for > now. If the feedback is positive, and we go ahead, it’ll take us some time > to actually implement the proposed changes. It’d be very important for us > to hear your feedback now to ensure that the new API meets your needs in > the future. > > If you are building tools around and on top of Wikidata/Wikibase, please > have a look at the draft and give us your feedback. You can find all the > information at Wikidata:REST API > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API>. Please leave your > feedback on the talk page there, so we have it all in one place. > > Thank you! > > -- > > Mohammed Sadat > > *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
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