I want to add it's now possible to import another wiki's articles via pywikipediabot: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/11103 More info and examples: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Dexbot The code is very simple: """ # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import wikipedia site=wikipedia.getSite('fa',fam='wikipedia') listofarticles=[u"عماد خراسانی",u"کوری جهاز"] for name in listofarticles: page=wikipedia.Page(site,name) data=wikipedia.DataPage(page) try: items=data.get() except wikipedia.NoPage: print "The item doesn't exist. Creating..." data.createitem("Bot: Importing article from Persian wikipedia") else: print "It has been created already. Skipping..." """"
On 2/22/13, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
Heya folks :)
Here's your weekly summary of everything fancy happening around Wikidata. It's was quite a week! The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_02_22
= Development =
- Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements
and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_features_and_bugfixes...
- Updated demo system
(http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Testwiki:Main_Page)
- Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
- Implemented first version of a string data type
- Worked on better error reporting from the API
- Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
- Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
- Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you
select items and entities)
- Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with
prototypical inheritance
- Worked on cleanup of local entity store
- Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next.
You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions... and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&...
= Discussions/Press =
- Wikidata development will continue in 2013:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/20/the-future-of-wikidata/
- Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing:
http://semanticweb.com/wikidata-phase-2-in-full-swing_b35445
- RFC about the Wikidata API:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-February/001763.html
- Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be
used. Current state is at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties and new ones are being discussed at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal
- RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Bot_policy
- Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposed_guideline_change...
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
- office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata
(log is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-02-16)
- upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
- Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias
and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
- Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata
- Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339
- “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design
decisions behind Wikidata): http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/
- List of most used properties:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_properties
- OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles:
http://omegawiki.blogspot.de/2013/02/using-wikidata-to-display-links-to.html
- Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-Cat.gif
- We’ve hit http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5000000
- Had a look at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools lately?
= Open Tasks for You =
- Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&...
- Help translate
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions
- Help bring the content of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia
-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata
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