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

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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

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MediaInfo entities

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  • October-December 2017:

Federation

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Multi-Content Revisions

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Metrics

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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.

Design

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Research

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Research of Commons use by community members

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

Past development

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

Metadata cleanup drive (2014)

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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.