Hello all,
I’m happy to announce that the *Wikidata Bridge
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/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
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge/Research> has been done,
and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project.
The next steps of development
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge/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
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge/Get_involved>.
- 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:
-
- Help translating the documentation pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge>
- Follow the updates
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge/Updates> and
participate in the first feedback loop
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:V1x2lxtu8rgi954a>
- If you’re also active on a Wikipedia project, feel free to reach
them and help answering their questions about Wikidata
- Discuss the specific Wikidata-related topics or issues on
Wikidata:Wikidata
Bridge <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Bridge>
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on the on the dedicated
talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata_Bridge>.
Cheers,
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.