Hello all,
I’m happy to announce that the Wikidata Bridge
project (you may have heard about before under the name “client
editing”) started. The goal of this project is to offer a way to
Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata’s data more easily. This will be
achieved by an interface, connected to the infoboxes, that users can
access directly from their local wiki.
The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot of user research has been done, and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project. The next steps of development will be achieved by the development team working at Wikimedia Deutschland, starting now until the end of 2019.
Here’s the planned timeline:
- From June to August, we will build the setup and technical groundwork.
- From September to November 2019, we will develop the first version
of the feature and publish a test system so you can try it and give
feedback.
- Later on, we will test the feature on a few projects, in collaboration with the communities.
- We will first focus on early adopters communities who already
implemented a shortcut from their infoboxes to edit Wikidata (for
example Russian, Catalan, Basque Wikipedias)
- but we also welcome also communities who volunteer to be part of the first test round.
- Then we will reach some of the big Wikipedias (French, German,
English) in order to see if the project scales and to address their
potentially different needs.
- Even later, we can consider enabling the feature on all the other projects.
On Wikidata, from the technical side, not much will change. When the
feature to edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia will be implemented, a
tag for edits coming from Wikidata Bridge will be added, so the Wikidata
editors can watch and filter these edits more easily.
If you want to get involved, there are several ways to help:
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on the on the dedicated talk page.
Cheers,
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
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