Hi,
 
I am Chinmay Naik, an undergrad in CS at Bangalore,India. I hope to contribute to CrowsourcingBiology through GSOC 2013. The project i am interested is "convert bot to write to wikidata". Currently the bot does this     database ---> wikipedia. The proposal is this    database ----> wikidata -----> wikipedia.

I have the basic idea of how to capture gene info onto wikidata. I was wondering about the inclusion syntax of wikidata. I had a look at the current inclusion of wikidata v0.3 meta. Some things are unclear to me. How best it is to map wikidata items on to wiki articles.??

Currently, the bot uses templates. The template structure is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GNF_Protein_box. The bot fills a various gene templates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PBB/100. These gene templates are included on gene wikipedia articles.

I tried to work out on the italian wikipedia. When i try to include a template(mapped to wikidata item) onto an wiki article, the wikidata properties were not displayed.
So is it not possible to include wikidata items in template namespace??
So transclusion where data is retreived from wikidata item not supported??  

Kindly pardon me if this is not the right mailing list to post to about this.

Thanks in advance,
Chinmay