Getting a starting dataset about vglist HOT 5 CLOSED

Wikidata notes:

• Getting the qualifier value for a property statement: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42796557/wikidata-sparql-query-qualifier-value
• A bunch of Wikidata example/test code I've written: https://github.com/connorshea/random-scripts/tree/master/wikidata

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#198 and #200 get a lot of this done, Engines, Companies, Series, Genres, Platforms, and Games are all able to be imported with this. This needs further testing, particularly the Games importer, but this issue is pretty far along now.

The main thing I'd still like to add is some way to get game covers. Wikidata doesn't provide these, and I have two major sources I can consider for covers: PCGamingWiki (only ~5000 of these games will have associated PCGW pages and it'll be biased toward games available on Windows/Mac/Linux, obviously) or Wikipedia (or both). Wikipedia has lower-quality covers because they err on the side of caution RE: fair use, so I'd rather use them as a backup.

Another option is the GiantBomb Wiki, but I'm hesitant to use data from GiantBomb since it's not freely licensed like Wikidata.

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I now have an importer for covers from PCGamingWiki, though it only provides covers for – at best – 25% of games. It may be worth considering another source to import from besides just PCGamingWiki.

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This was improved somewhat in #239 but it doesn't do anything to improve game cover... coverage.

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I'm gonna call this done now, I can improve the game cover import later :)

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