Hi,
Bernardo Najlis <b52.net(a)gmail.com> schrieb:
My name is Bernardo and I work as a Business
Intelligence Consultant in
Toronto, Canada. I've been reading pretty much everything about
WikiData
over the past few days, and I'm really excited about this project! I
would
love to participate and collaborate in developing tools to bring data
from
external sources, particularly the vast open data sets that are so
common
right now.
First of all the priority lies on data already present on Wikipedia. Wikidata
should not be a data storage for everything structured in the world, so we should first
start to transfer data already present on Wikipedia to Wikidata.
External data-sources will be interested as well and for sure but the purpose of wikidata
is still cenralizing of what we already have.
I have some questions about the project and how can I
participate, that
you
might be able to help me with:
1) I know the data import is planned for a future phase 2. Do you think
it
would be useful to start working on some of that now?
At the moment I think there is nothing ready of this phase for beeing tested. You
could participate here on discussing models for implementation.
2) I also learned that you guys had a round
table<http://wikidataroundtable.eventbrite.com/>on June 21 about this
topic (wish I could have known about Wikidata and
been there!) but I couldn't find what the outcome of that discussion
was.
Is there anywhere where I can find what was discussed there?
3) Is there anyone else on the list working on the subject of how to
bring
data in? I have some ideas on the subject, but again, don't know if
this is
too early in the project.
You got it, it is too early talking about data-bots. Phase 1 had just been
released. Actually there are many use-cases I could think of. But there are many others
for sure as well ;-)
At the moment you could help fixing bugs, testing everything recently released (e.g.
http://wikidata.org)
Marco