Hi,
Bernardo Najlis b52.net@gmail.com schrieb:
My name is Bernardo and I work as a Business Intelligence Consultant in Toronto, Canada. I've been reading pretty much everything about WikiData over the past few days, and I'm really excited about this project! I would love to participate and collaborate in developing tools to bring data from external sources, particularly the vast open data sets that are so common right now.
First of all the priority lies on data already present on Wikipedia. Wikidata should not be a data storage for everything structured in the world, so we should first start to transfer data already present on Wikipedia to Wikidata.
External data-sources will be interested as well and for sure but the purpose of wikidata is still cenralizing of what we already have.
I have some questions about the project and how can I participate, that you might be able to help me with:
- I know the data import is planned for a future phase 2. Do you think
it would be useful to start working on some of that now?
At the moment I think there is nothing ready of this phase for beeing tested. You could participate here on discussing models for implementation.
- I also learned that you guys had a round
tablehttp://wikidataroundtable.eventbrite.com/on June 21 about this topic (wish I could have known about Wikidata and been there!) but I couldn't find what the outcome of that discussion was. Is there anywhere where I can find what was discussed there?
- Is there anyone else on the list working on the subject of how to
bring data in? I have some ideas on the subject, but again, don't know if this is too early in the project.
You got it, it is too early talking about data-bots. Phase 1 had just been released. Actually there are many use-cases I could think of. But there are many others for sure as well ;-)
At the moment you could help fixing bugs, testing everything recently released (e.g. http://wikidata.org)
Marco