Hi Simon,
Sorry for having let this sit so long.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Simon A. Eugster granjow@gmail.com wrote:
Hey there!
I am writing my master thesis, an identification key for trees. A preview is currently here: http://ec2-54-234-76-44.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ (address may/will change).
Nice!
The key (filter.php) can already be edited (editor.php), but without history etc. Wikibase suits the requirements perfectly – you wrote it just in time. Characters of trees are language independant, descriptions are not; exactly what Wikibase does.
There is one point I need help with: I need a list of all Questions/Characters/Taxa, i.e. pretty much a table dump, for the editor (processing is all done with JavaScript). What way would you suggest? \Wikibase\Store only returns Entities for known IDs, and I have found no other function so far.
To distinguish between the different kinds of object (question, character, etc.) I plan to use instance-of properties and make the IDs of the used properties (instance-of, parent, …) and items (question, character, taxon, …) configurable in the extension.
If I understood what you want to do correctly then this is not possible yet. You'll have to work on the database dumps. More info on these are at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download
Cheers Lydia
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