Andrea, now that I understand better what you want, could you add it as
an idea to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects ,
especially if you would be willing to be paired with a technical expert
to mentor a student in making this?  Thanks!

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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation

On 07/02/2013 02:13 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> Yes, you're right.
> I know, for example, that Pundit is a tool for semantic annotation,
> and it would probably be a good candidate to start with.
> http://www.thepund.it/
> (the won best poster at LODLAM, and are based in Italy. I met some of the
> staff and have already hinted about this possible feature).
> The also collaborate with OKFN.
>
> Aubrey
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
> <sumanah@wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> On 06/21/2013 08:00 AM, Aubrey wrote:
>>> Another dream of mine is an annotator that could save "facts" in Wikidata
>>> statements.
>>> We could reald a newspaper online, or a book, or an article on a
>> scientific
>>> blog, and highlight a short sentence, and this sentence would be a
>>> statement (Item has a Property Value), with a source (the original
>>> document).
>>> I bet this is not *so* difficult.
>>
>> At first I thought you meant that it would be good to implement this in
>> Zotero https://www.zotero.org/ , Annotator
>> https://github.com/okfn/annotator , or a similar tool, to help a user
>> keep track of their own favorite Wikidata facts.  Now I understand :)
>> that you'd like, perhaps, a client-side browser plugin or script that
>> takes some highlighted text, offers the user a GUI to fix up the
>> statement and source, and then feeds it into Wikidata.  Am I right?
>>
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>> Sumana Harihareswara
>> Engineering Community Manager
>> Wikimedia Foundation