Hi Benjamin,

there is a similar task. I am not sure this fits here. Hungarian Wikipedia lists the redlist status of species of plants and animals (threatened, not threatened etc.). There is a request to update this by bot from http://www.iucnredlist.org/.

My bot imported a bunch of these over the past two days from English Wikipedia categories. You can see some of the logs at [1] and [2]. I don't think it is fully complete, but it is a huge start. Since my bot can import from any Wikipedia project if Hungarian Wikipedia has it sorted into categories as well, my bot can complement the enwp data with it.

Also biological property, also listed in templates and also originates from an external database. I told them to wait for Wikidata phase 2, which is now alive, but what next? Do you think these tasks are related?

I am planning on importing taxonomy data from enwp (and possibly other projects) hopefully next week. There's a quick page at [3] that an enwp user who is familiar with the taxonomy templates put together for me. If other languages also have similar templates it would be good to add to that list as well. I am also going to look into supplementing with information from Wikispecies if possible.

2013/3/1 Benjamin Good <ben.mcgee.good@gmail.com>

I am considering the task of converting the templates from the gene articles in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Gene_Wiki) to use/create wikidata assertions. This involves an extensive update of the template structure as well as the code for the bot that keeps them in sync with external public databases. (https://bitbucket.org/sulab/pygenewiki)

I am not very familiar with enwp's coverage of genes. Does this require updates on Wikidata side or Wikipedia side?

More specifically I'm thinking about working with a Google Summer of Code student on this project.

Given a time frame of now through August, would it make sense for us to pursue this objective directly in the context of wikidata (through the public API). Or would it be better for us to install our own version of the wikibase software (kept in sync with code updates) and develop the new gene wiki bot code locally with the aim of switching to the public API later? Or is it too early to consider this project?

I would think that as soon as the data can go on to the main Wikidata database, the better.

I want to get involved and support wikidata with this important data, but I'm hesitant to ramp up development (especially with a student) in a moving target situation.

Any thoughts?

thanks!
-Ben

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[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Legobot/properties.js/Archive/2013/02/27
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Legobot/properties.js/Archive/2013/02/28
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Legobot/taxon

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