QuickStatements 3.0
Timeline
March 21, 2024
Launch of the Open Call for Software Collaboration for Wikidata by Wikimedia Deutschland and the Arcadia Fund.
Wikimedia Brasil submitted three projects: Mobile app for Wikidata, Wiki Infographics MVP and QuickStatements 3.0.
June 2024
QuickStatements 3.0 was one of the projects selected.
WMB hired developers and build the team to work on QuickStatements.
Community Lead
- Start of Wikidata community members analysis through EditGroups and Wikimedia Statistics.
Development
- The first task was to build a technical development plan.
July 2024
Technical Plan for QuickStatements 3.0 was released.
Community Lead
- Preparation of the community consultation methodology and questions.
Development
- Beginning of the first cicle of development;
- Repository and infrastructure of the project implemented.
August 2024
Community Lead
- Community consultation runned from August 12 until August 31;
- WMB used an instance of LimeSurvey provided by Wikimedia Portugal.
Development
- Interface with current functionalities was implemented in Toolforge (frontend and backend);
- Parsers (V1 and CSV) set.
September 2024
Community Lead
- Community consultation results compiled and analysed;
- Preparation of the methodology and questions of interviews with Wikidata community contributors.
Development
- Completed the integration with the REST API, giving feedback;
- Backend API documented;
- Application to Outreachy: Quickstatements 3.0 public documentation.
October 2024
Community Lead
- Execution of interviews with Wikidata community contributors;
- Transcription and start of compilation and analysis of the interviews.
Development
- Revisions of pull requests and adjustments before releasing for testing;
- Analysis of the contributions and selection of an Outreachy intern.
November 2024
Community Lead
- Continuing the compilation and analysis of the interviews.
Development
- Refactor of the code that deal with command types and errors;
- Expansion of the reserved commands and syntax.
December 2024
Community Lead
- Continuing the compilation and analysis of the interviews;
- Revising the community priorities within the development.
Development
- Beginning of the Outreachy intern;
- Final adjustments on the most desired functionalities.
January 2025
Community Lead
- Creation of the communications plan;
- Internal drafting of the user stories.
Development
- Deployment of 6 of the most desired functionalities;
- Add or remove qualifiers and references preserving the rest of the statement;
- Add multiple statements with different qualifiers;
- Set and edit ranks for statements;
- Aggregate set of commands of the same item in one unique edit;
- Improve error report before running the batches;
- Report of the batches (items edited, created and errors).