Hi Tom, all,
Have you considered asking Google to transfer ownership of the project since they're no longer doing anything with it?
Denny wrote [1] that we are open to transferring the project to a new owner: "If anyone wants to take over the project, we would invite you to contribute a bit for a while, and then let’s discuss about it. I would be thrilled to see this tool develop.". This still stands :-)
Cheers, Tom
-- [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008316.html