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WTA Not interested

Edoderoo (talkcontribs)

High, hope you're well! About two years ago there was some discussion on Wikidata talk:WikiProject Tennis#Interesting articles about data about importing WTA (and maybe ATP) data into WikiData, especially the data that is changing every week like win/loose balances for singles and doubles. You mentioned that you had some contacts at the ATP/WTA that could maybe lead to permission to crawl their website by a bot, but at some point the whole project grinded to a halt.

In the meantime I have enough (python) skills to create a bot that would crawl the WTA site and update Wikidata on a regular base, but it doesn't make much sense to work on this when the act is illegal. If you still have those contacts, it might be a good idea to check if we can make this happening now, as I'm still excited to make this a succes. I have access to OTRS as well, so I help is needed in that area, please let me know.

Regards,

Mad melone (talkcontribs)

Hi,

this project vanished as WTA and ATP did not show any interest from their side.

Edoderoo (talkcontribs)

I can imagine ... that means that we need to find a better advocate for our cause before we try again ... maybe one of their employees or one of their players will become an active wikipedian one day, then we have a nice opening again. Thanks so far!