Primary sources tool (was: Re: Freebase to Wikidata: Results from Tpt internship) - Wikidata

22 Feb 2016

Hi Tom,

FYI, the primary sources tool is not dead: besides Freebase, it will 
also cater for other datasets.

The StrepHit team will take care of it in the next few months, as per 
one of the project goals [1].
The code repository is owned by Google, and the StrepHit team will 
collaborate with the maintainers via the standard pull 
request/review/merge process.

Cheers,

Marco

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va…

On 2/22/16 13:00, wikidata-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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  From: Tom Morris&lt;tfmorris(a)gmail.com&gt;
 To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project."
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 Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Freebase to Wikidata: Results from Tpt
 	internship
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  Are there plans for next steps or is this the end
of the project as far as
 >the two of you go?
 >  I'm going to assume that the lack of answer to this question over the
last
 four months, the lack of updates on the project, and the fact no one is
 even bothering to respond to issues
 <https://github.com/google/primarysources/issues>  means that this project
 is dead and abandoned.  That's pretty sad. For an internship, it sounds
 like a cool project and a decent result. As an actual serious attempt to
 make productive use of the Freebase data, it's a weak, half-hearted effort
 by Google. 