[okfn-discuss] StrepHit IEG renewal: call for support

Sun Jul 24 13:45:42 UTC 2016

[Begging pardon if you read this multiple times]

Dear all,

Remember StrepHit [1], the Natural Language Processing pipeline that 
extracts
structured data from raw text and produces Wikidata [2] statements with
reference URLs?

StrepHit got funded for 6 months by a *Wikimedia Individual Engagement 
Grant* (IEG) [3].
Its datasets are now uploaded to the *primary sources tool* [4, 5]: the
goal of the tool is to provide a standard workflow for data donations to 
Wikidata.

Now, we believe that the primary sources tool *really needs lots of 
improvements*, which we have been collecting in a request for comment [5].
That's why we opened a renewal request for the StrepHit IEG [6].

If you like the idea, please *endorse* the renewal!

Best regards,
Marco Fossati

[1] https://github.com/Wikidata/StrepHit
[2] https://www.wikidata.org
[3] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References
[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool
[5] https://github.com/Wikidata/primarysources
[6] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal