As more and more Wikibase instances are coming into existence we are seeing attempts to start them with masses of data from already existing data bases that switch to the new software.
Experimenting I tried to find a faster way to insert a huge amount of items into a Wikibase instance. I have not been able to insert more than two or three statements per second using the ‘official’ tools, such as QuickStatements or the WDI library.
Therefore, I am inserting the data directly into the MySQL database used by Wikibase.
The process consists of these steps:
- generate the data for an item in JSON
- determine the next Q number and update the JSON item data accordingly
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