Hi all, with this Email I want to start the discussion on how to operationalize the deployment of Wikidata. This Email gives a general outline, and a link to the page on Meta where I will collect the results of this discussion. Discussion, feedback and comments are welcome. The goal for Wikidata is to release early, release often, and to eventually follow WMF's lead with their bi-weekly deployment cycle. The very first version of Wikidata to deploy is almost there. We still have a number of bugs and wrinkles we are polishing, but in general we are ready to start moving towards deployment. This will lead to a very organic introduction of Wikidata data into the Wikipedias. We can react to problems and use cases early. I think a plan where we implement the three phases completely and deploy them then is bound to lead to a less widely accepted solution. The suggestion is to deploy the following steps. This all still only covers phase I. * Step 1: start the Wikidata repository wiki. This only allows to add language links, and they are not displayed anywhere yet. * Step 2: deploy the Wikidata client extension on one language edition of Wikipedia for testing (Q: How to select it?) * Step 3: deploy the WIkidata client extension on a second language edition of Wikipedia (Q: How to select it?) * Step 4: deploy the Wikidata client extension on the English edition of Wikipedia * Step 5: deploy on all Wikipedias. Details are on this page on Meta: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Deployment> I would like to find the appropriate means to define how to implement the above steps whether on this list or off it. Even though Rob has given me unlimited license to be obnoxious on this list about this, I will try not to. Mind the "try" :) Cheers, Denny -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.