Hi Benjamin,
there is a similar task. I am not sure this fits here. Hungarian Wikipedia
lists the redlist status of species of plants and animals (threatened, not
threatened etc.). There is a request to update this by bot from
http://www.iucnredlist.org/. Also biological property, also listed in
templates and also originates from an external database. I told them to
wait for Wikidata phase 2, which is now alive, but what next? Do you think
these tasks are related?
2013/3/1 Benjamin Good <ben.mcgee.good(a)gmail.com>
I am considering the task of converting the templates
from the gene
articles in Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Gene_Wiki) to
use/create wikidata assertions. This involves an extensive update of the
template structure as well as the code for the bot that keeps them in sync
with external public databases. (
https://bitbucket.org/sulab/pygenewiki)
More specifically I'm thinking about working with a Google Summer of Code
student on this project.
Given a time frame of now through August, would it make sense for us to
pursue this objective directly in the context of wikidata (through the
public API). Or would it be better for us to install our own version of
the wikibase software (kept in sync with code updates) and develop the new
gene wiki bot code locally with the aim of switching to the public API
later? Or is it too early to consider this project?
I want to get involved and support wikidata with this important data, but
I'm hesitant to ramp up development (especially with a student) in a moving
target situation.
Any thoughts?
thanks!
-Ben
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