-----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(a)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(a)oclc.org
+17074787023