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Joan Creus

23 Aug 2012 23 Aug '12

3:35 p.m.

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)<https://github.com/jcreus/pywikida…ta>. The file example.py<https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata/blob/master/example.py&g… some examples of how it works. Finally, in case you find bugs you're welcome to report them<https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata/issues>es>, 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

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Lydia Pintscher

23 Aug 23 Aug

5:31 p.m.

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Joan Creus <joan.creus.c(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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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 -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

Klein,Max

24 Aug 24 Aug

5:41 p.m.

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-----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:

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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 ________________________ 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

Lydia Pintscher

7:39 p.m.

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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Klein,Max <kleinm(a)oclc.org> wrote:

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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?

Hey :) Nothing changed really. Large mass uploads of data are still (initially) discouraged. We really need to be very careful especially at the beginning to not kill the Wikidata community before it even started to grow. So please let's take it slowly. It'll be the right thing in the long run. (For a related story read Robert Kaye's chapter in Open Advice btw: http://open-advice.org.) That being said, there sure are things that the community can agree on that are ok to import at the beginning (some language link sets maybe?) and this is where pywikidata comes in. And there are a lot of things in the long run that it will be useful for. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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