Hello Markus,
Your draft proposal, seems so obvious when I read it, but I would have never thought about proposing it myself. Despite the fact that my research is cited as an example of a motivating capability, and that it was 2 weeks of needless headache to code, I had always thought that magical "Phase 3" was coming to solve our query woes. I don't see that highlighted in your IEG. In fact from what I know, there are still plans from the official Wikidata team to build advanced query functionality. Although I do remember Denny saying that the team was scrapping the "Phase" development paradigm, so maybe I missed something along the way.
Anyway, I think you should address more the fact that this work is ostensibly planned from the main Wikidata grant, and why this extra work - or extra attention - is needed in addition.
Ps. Wikidatian, or Wikidatum are my faves so far.
Maximilian Klein Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC +17074787023
________________________________________ From: wikidata-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org wikidata-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 5:11 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata Toolkit: call for feedback/support
Dear Wikidatanions (*),
I have just drafted a little proposal for creating more tools for external people to work with Wikidata, especially to build services on top of its data [1]. Your feedback and support is needed.
Idea: Currently, this is quite hard for people, since we only have WDA for reading/analysing dumps [2] and Wikidata Query as a single web service to ask queries [3]. We should have more support for programmers who want to load, query, analyse, and otherwise use the data. The proposal is to start such a toolkit to enable more work with the data.
The plan is to kickstart this project with a small team using Wikimedia's Individual Engagement program. For this we will need your support -- feel free to add your voice to the wiki page [1]. Of course, comments of all sorts are also great -- this email thread will be linked from the page. If you would like to be involved with the project, that's great too; let me know and I can add you to the proposal.
The proposal will already be submitted tomorrow, but support should also be possible after that, I hope.
Cheers,
Markus
(*) Do we have a demonym yet? Wikipedian sounds natural, Wikidatan less so. Maybe this should be another thread ... ;-)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit [2] http://github.com/mkroetzsch/wda [3] http://208.80.153.172/wdq/
-- Markus Kroetzsch, Departmental Lecturer Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom +44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/
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