-----Original Message----- From: Lydia Pintscher [mailto:lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:32 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Pywikidata 0.1: a Python interface to Wikidata'sAPI
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Joan Creus joan.creus.c@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
After some development, I think there's a version of pywikidata which works well enough to work with. It is still missing some features; however, creating items, getting them by id, and saving them is covered.
You can find it here (https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata). The file example.py includes some examples of how it works.
Finally, in case you find bugs you're welcome to report them, even more to send a pull request ;). Pending things include handling permission errors (which some time ago I couldn't trigger, I'll try now), or getting items by interwiki.
Thanks a lot, and sorry for my English!
Joan Creus
Wohooooooooo! As I already told you on IRC this is pretty awesome \o/ Please keep us posted on the progress.
Cheers Lydia
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Joan, This is a very cool development. I'm going to follow this closely.
Now that the technology is here to make mass uploads, I wonder how this is going to effect the policy of Wikidata accepting batch-uploads. At Wikimania I remember Daniel saying that it's going to be discouraged to import a lot of data at once. I wonder now that we have this interface, will that change? What type of pywikidata bots are going to be allowed to run?
Max Klein Wikipedia in Residence kleinm@oclc.org +17074787023