Hi all,

I am happy to announce the release of Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 [1], the Java library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase.

The most prominent new feature of this release is improved support for writing bots (full support for maxlag and edit throttling, simpler code through convenience methods, fixed a previous issue with API access). In addition, the new version introduces support for the new Wikidata property types "external-id" and "math".

We have also improved our documentation by creating an example project that shows how to use Wikidata Toolkit as a library in your own, stand-alone Java code [2].

The bot code in the examples is used in actual bots, and was used for thousands of edits on Wikidata (e.g., some may have noticed that the annoying "+-1" after population numbers and the like has become quite rare recently ;-).

Maven users can get the library directly from Maven Central (see [1]); this is the preferred method of installation. There is also an all-in-one JAR at github [3] and of course the sources [4] and updated JavaDocs [5].

As usual, feedback is welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via github.

Cheers,

Markus

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit [2] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit-Examples [3] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/releases [4] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/ [5] http://wikidata.github.io/Wikidata-Toolkit/