I want to add it's now possible to import another wiki's articles via
pywikipediabot:
The code is very simple:
"""
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import wikipedia
site=wikipedia.getSite('fa',fam='wikipedia')
listofarticles=[u"عماد خراسانی",u"کوری جهاز"]
for name in listofarticles:
page=wikipedia.Page(site,name)
data=wikipedia.DataPage(page)
try:
items=data.get()
except wikipedia.NoPage:
print "The item doesn't exist. Creating..."
data.createitem("Bot: Importing article from Persian wikipedia")
else:
print "It has been created already. Skipping..."
""""
On 2/22/13, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Heya folks :)
Here's your weekly summary of everything fancy happening around
Wikidata. It's was quite a week!
The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_02_22
= Development =
* Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements
and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_features_and_bugfixe…
* Updated demo system
(
http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Testwiki:Main_Page)
* Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
* Implemented first version of a string data type
* Worked on better error reporting from the API
* Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
* Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
* Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you
select items and entities)
* Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with
prototypical inheritance
* Worked on cleanup of local entity store
* Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint
for what we’re working on next.
You can follow our commits at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension…
and view the subset awaiting review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&am…
= Discussions/Press =
* Wikidata development will continue in 2013:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/20/the-future-of-wikidata/
* Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing:
http://semanticweb.com/wikidata-phase-2-in-full-swing_b35445
* RFC about the Wikidata API:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-February/001763.html
* Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be
used. Current state is at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties and new ones
are being discussed at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal
* RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Bot_policy
* Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposed_guideline_chang…
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata
(log is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-02-16)
* upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias
and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
* Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata
* Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339
* “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design
decisions behind Wikidata):
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/
* List of most used properties:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_properties
* OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles:
http://omegawiki.blogspot.de/2013/02/using-wikidata-to-display-links-to.html
* Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-Cat.gif
* We’ve hit
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5000000
* Had a look at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools lately?
= Open Tasks for You =
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&am…
* Help translate
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions
* Help bring the content of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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