Hi, Bernardo Najlis <b52....@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: > >1) 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. >2) I also learned that you guys had a round >table<http://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? > >3) 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 _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
