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add a web interface for position_statements #37

Open mhl opened 6 years ago

mhl commented 6 years ago

position_statements is a tool we have developed which operates very similarly to QuickStatements 1 and QuickStatements 2, except that:

This is a fantastic tool for bulk updating political Wikidata, but at the moment there's no web interface to using it, unlike QuickStatements. At the moment we either say to partners to create some instructions of the right format (which is QuickStatements 1's tab-separated format, with our extension to allow statement-targetting), and either:

It would be great they could run the tool from the web themselves instead. The code for QuickStatements 2 (the interface we generally use, although the documentation is still found on the Quickstatements 1 tool) is open source, we believe, although I don't see an explicit license:

Assuming that it is open source, however, one possibility is to use the HTML / CSS / Javascript of that project, but calling our position_statements code to make the updates.