Hi,
It would be nice to have a place to look with a link to a page in the
Community portal that says "History of
Wikidata's design and early
collected meetings, notes, design documents, recordings"
Might not answer your concrete question, but here are some (very) early
blog posts by Denny. They are still a nice read. :)
1/3
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/
2/3
https://newwwblog.wikimedia.de/2013/06/04/on-truths-and-lies/
3/3
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/09/12/a-categorical-imperative/
Cheers, Tobi