[Pywikipedia-l] Wikidata implementation in rewrite branch - pywikibot

6 Mar 2013

I just commited r11182[1] into rewrite branch, providing real Wikidata
support, including claims and sources.

An example of how to use it:

...
 >> site =
pywikibot.Site('en','wikipedia')
>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Douglas Adams')
>> item = pywikibot.ItemPage.fromPage(page)
>> data = item.get()
>> item.labels['en'] u'Douglas Adams'
...
 >> item.claims {u'p18':
[Claim(Property:P18)], u'p19': [Claim(Property:P19)], u'p107':
[Claim(Property:P107)], u'p31': [Claim(Property:P31)], u'p21':
[Claim(Property:P21)]}
...
 >> item.claims['p107'][0].sources
[Claim(Property:P143)]
...
 >>
item.claims['p107'][0].sources[0].target ItemPage(Q169514)

Currently only read access is supported, I should have the write methods
ready in a few days.
When getting sitelinks (item.sitelinks['enwiki']), you need to provide the
site.dbName() rather than a standard site object due to issues with locked
wikis (see my previous mail[2]).

One thing I was wondering about, should this be split into a separate file?
pywikibot/wikibase.py? These are extension specific classes not-likely to
be used by many wikis and will add a lot to page.py.

I'll update the onwiki documentation[3] soon as well.

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/11182
[2]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikipedia-l/2013-March/007766.html
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Wikidata

Thanks,
-- Legoktm