New release of the Wikidata Toolkit + survey - Wikidata-tech

18 Dec 2017


      Dear all,
I just released a new version (0.8) of the Wikidata Toolkit [1]. Wikidata
Toolkit is a Java library allowing to easily reuse Wikidata content using
dumps or the API but also providing helpers for editing.
This release mainly adds several fixes that are needed to keep Wikidata
Toolkit working with the changes done on Wikidata provides support for JDK
9.
It also provides two features related to the Wikibase API: it is now
possible to edit labels, descriptions and aliases using the
WikibaseDataEditor (this is a work in progress that is likely to change)
and there is now a wrapper for the wbEntitySearch API action.
We have created a short survey to help doing technical choices for the
future versions of the Wikidata Toolkit, especially related to Java 7
support and the RDF converter. Please fill it if you are using Wikidata
Toolkit (it should take less than a minute):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdN25X2sTv2wQe-y56d0hC4QmU06s6crr1G...
Best,
Thomas (Tpt)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit