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 <kleinm(a)oclc.org> 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
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wikidata-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Markus Krötzsch <
markus(a)semantic-mediawiki.org>
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/
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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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