Hi all,

we have made quite some technical progress in GFS[1] regarding the harvesting of Wikipedia infoboxes including fact references and also external sources and filed a, RFC here:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Harvesting_of_Wikipedia_Infoboxes_for_Wikidata._Proposal_for_extension_of_Harvest_Templates


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSyncRE

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All the best,
Sebastian Hellmann

Director of Knowledge Integration and Linked Data Technologies (KILT) Competence Center
at the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) at Leipzig University
Executive Director of the DBpedia Association
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org, http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt
Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org