Hello Markus, Glad to see the wikidata toolkit project has kicked off. As a previous user of wikidata and pywikipedia(knowing its shortcomings), i fully support the project. I would like to get involved and contribute to the toolkit. I have forked on github and i am currently setting up, working my way around. Would ping back to u if i get stuck. Hoping for a positive reply.

--Chinmay On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Markus Kroetzsch &lt;markus.kroetzsch(a)tu-dresden.de <mailto:markus.kroetzsch@tu-dresden.de>> wrote: Hi all, The new Wikidata Toolkit project has started this week, so here is a brief update. You are invited to participate and to comment. Early users will enjoy a special first-level support: if you have an interesting use-case for our project, we will help you get started and prioritize your requirements. Wikidata Toolkit is going to be a Java library to work with Wikidata (and Wikibase in general). It will allow you to load, query, and analyse the data, and to export it to a variety of formats. Key facts: * Homepage: https://www.mediawiki.org/__wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit> * Code: https://github.com/Wikidata/__Wikidata-Toolkit <https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit> * Planned milestones: https://github.com/Wikidata/__Wikidata-Toolkit/issues/__milestones <https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/issues/milestones> * Project plan (high level): https://meta.wikimedia.org/__wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata___Toolkit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit> Our current team consists of four people: Fredo Erxleben, Julian Mendez, Michael Günther, and myself. Development is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and by the German Research Foundation. The project is initially planned for six months. You are invited to contribute code/feature requests/use cases. If you have a concrete task that you would like to solve, please let us know, and we will see what we can do. Our first release 0.1 should be able to create data exports in RDF and maybe in other formats from the internal Wikidata dump files. If you need Wikidata in other formats, please let us know. Our later releases will be able to load data and add query capabilities that allow you to analyse the data. Again, your requirements are welcome. Cheers, Markus -- Markus Kroetzsch Faculty of Computer Science Technische Universität Dresden +49 351 463 38486 http://korrekt.org/ _________________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/__mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l