User:SandraF (WMF)/Draft/Development

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Development steps are listed per component of the Structured Commons project and software, and are shown in reverse chronological order (most recent on top).

Timeline

A detailed timeline is not available yet, but the team is working on it! At this moment (Autumn 2017) the team is mostly busy with groundwork and basic infrastructure.

Technology

MediaInfo entities

• October-December 2017:

Federation

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T156114

• July 2017: Test Federation Debuts: announcement that Wikidata's engineers have developed a test “federation,” which allows users to test a very basic preview version of Structured Data on Commons. The test lets Wikidata’s items and properties describe media files on Commons.
  • Announcement on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Archive_2017#New_step_towards_structured_data_for_Commons_is_now_available:_federation
  • Announcement on the Commons-l mailing list: https://www.mail-archive.com/commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg03559.html.
• January 2017: Building of Test Federation Begins: Wikimedia Deutschland begins the work to develop a test “federation,” which would allow users to test a basic version of Structured Data on Commons. The federation will let Wikidata’s items and properties describe media files on Commons. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156114

Multi-Content Revisions

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T174022

• Daniel Kinzler explains Multi-Content Revisions at Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017
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  Presentation explaining Multi-Content Revisions

• August 2017: Tasks related to Multi-Content Revisions were cleaned up and streamlined in phab:T174022
• January 2017: At the 2017 Wikimedia Developer Summit, engineers from the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland have discussed the implementation of Multi-Content Revisions, one of the engineering cornerstones of the first phase of Structured Data on Commons. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Multi-Content-Revisions
• August 2016: Developers from Wikimedia Deutschland initiated a Request for Comments about Multi-Content Revisions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Multi-Content_Revisions

Metrics

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T174519

How will we measure the effectiveness of new functionalities on Wikimedia Commons? In order to be able to do this, we need to establish relevant criteria that can be measured and a (2017) baseline against which we can compare in the future.

• October-December 2017: metrics and a metrics baseline for Commons are defined.

Research

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T171252

Research of Commons use by community members

• Upcoming: interviews with Commons contributors (phab:T175185)
• December 2016: Qualitative design research of heavy Commons users by Jan Dittrich (WMDE).

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  Presentation with insights about the way in which heavy Commons users typically work

Research of Commons use and needs by GLAMs

• Tracked in Phabricator
  Task T175188
  
  October 2017: GLAM Users Invited to Take Survey: Jonathan Morgan adds an announcement to the main Structured Data on Commons page, asking GLAM users to take a 15-minute survey on how they upload images to Commons. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data and https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7WDA2RZvPDuaV7f.
• Tracked in Phabricator
  Task T159495
  
  July 5, 2017: Design Interviews Begin with GLAM Institutions: Senior Design Researcher Jonathan Morgan begins researching GLAM institutions’ batch upload workflows, and conducting interviews with Commons contributors at museums, universities, and other institutions. The interviews will take place over the next four months. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by_GLAM_institutions

Past development

Early research and development that took place in 2014, is documented at Commons:Structured data/Archive/2014/Development.

Metadata cleanup drive (2014)

In 2014 and early 2015, a large metadata cleanup campaign took place across MediaWiki wikis, in order to prepare as many files as possible for conversion to machine-readable data.

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  Screenshot of metadata cleanup dashboard for en.wikivoyage
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  Evolution of metadata cleanup on English Wikivoyage