Discussion

So the data looks like this:

Scientific name (item)	English name	Description (statement: instance of)
Acacia saligna (Labill.) H.L.Wendl.	Golden wreath wattle	taxon

We briefly discussed 3 options:

• Api calls via a script
  • Perhaps extra complexity with the format to send to the API
  • Learning: Get to use our API!
• Maintenance script doing it internally
  • ./extensions/Wikibase/repo/maintenance/importFedPropsTestTsv.php --file ./mydata.csv
  • Using the internal Wikibase services
  • explode( " ", explode("\n", $tsvText) ) = all the things?
  • $entityStore->save( new Item( TermList( [ 'en' => $LABEL ] ), StatementList ) )
  • Pro: more testable
• Via some tool doing it some other wall (quickstatmenets?)
  • We probably don't want to leave something like this setup (per what was said in story time) so should probably avoid this direction.

Todos

We decided to write a maintenance script.

• It has one option, CSV file location
• It works with one format, EN Label, EN Description, Instance of string value

And it would:

• Create items for all of the instances of string values (and keep a record of the Q ids)
• Create 1 item per row with the label and statement for instance of

When merged into Wikibase it should then be run on the test system (for this ticket) with the data

Change 612633 had a related patch set uploaded (by Rosalie Perside (WMDE); owner: Rosalie Perside (WMDE)):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] [WIP]FP: Maintemance script for federated properties test instance #1

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/612633

Change 612633 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] FP: Maintenance script for test instance #1

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/612633