diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1fb804b..38ff746 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,28 +1,21 @@ -Primary Sources Tool for Wikidata -================================= +# Wikidata primary sources tool +A platform to release and curate third-party datasets for Wikidata. -[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Wikidata/primarysources.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Wikidata/primarysources) +See the following links for more information: +- [Wikidata project page](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool); +- [Phabricator project](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/2788/). -[Freebase](https://freebase.com) was launched to be a “Wikipedia for structured data”, because in -2007 there was no such project. But now we do have Wikidata, and Wikidata -and its community is developing very fast. Today, the goals of Freebase -might be better served by supporting Wikidata. +# Overview +![Tool architecture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Wikidata_primary_sources_tool_architecture_v2.svg) -See https://plus.google.com/109936836907132434202/posts/bu3z2wVqcQc +# Acknowledgments +This work was supported by the **[StrepHit renewal](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal)** +Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grant. -Freebase has seen a huge amount of effort go into it since it went public -in 2007. It makes a lot of sense to make the results of this work available -to Wikidata. But knowing Wikidata and its community a bit, it is obvious -that we can not and should not simply upload Freebase data to Wikidata: -Wikidata would prefer the data to be referenced to external, primary sources. +See the following links for details on the development timeline: +- [monthly reports](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal/Timeline); +- [midpoint report](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal/Midpoint); +- [final report](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal/Final). -The Primary Sources Tool is an Open Source tool which will run on Wikimedia -labs and which will allow Wikidata contributors to find references for a -statement and then upload the statement and the reference to Wikidata. We -will release several sets of Freebase data ready for consumption by this tool -under a CC0 license. This tool should also work for statements already in -Wikidata without sufficient references, or for other datasets, like DBpedia -and other machine extraction efforts, etc. - -Website and discussion of this tool: -https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool +# License +The source code is under the terms of the [Apache License, version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) and the [GNU General Public License, version 3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).