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-y56d0hC4QmU06s6crr1GoGqx3qVNv3Fz5A/viewform

Best,

Thomas (Tpt)

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit