Dear Mohammed, thanks for publishing these!
I'm especially looking forward to the release strategy and update
process documentation, and happy to participate in surveys or other
community input activities.
Can I ask if the Wikibase Evaluation Service MVP is actually wbstack?
Cheers!
Dragan
On Di, Feb 2, 2021 at 16:09, Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
<mohammed.sadat_ext(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I’m excited to announce the new roadmap of the Wikidata development
team for Wikidata and Wikibase for the year 2021!
In 2021 we will continue developments to increase data quality and
trust in Wikidata. Among the initiatives are to find more ways for
people to find biases and gaps in the data and compare Wikidata’s
data against other databases to find mismatches. We will also finish
up the work from last year on a visual query builder to simplify
querying.
We will be releasing the first version of the new REST API to make it
easier for 3rd-party developers to build applications using data from
Wikidata.
We will also work on making interface improvements for
lexicographical data to make it more usable and attractive for
contributors.
On the Wikibase side of things, we will officially release the
lightweight, first version of Wikidata-Wikibase Federation that
allows accessing remote Wikidata properties in a custom Wikibase
instance. We will then develop and release an enhanced version of
this feature after incorporating feedback from users.
We will also:
Implement a new release strategy and infrastructure for Wikibase
packages and create user documentation for the Wikibase Docker update
process
Investigate how to give Wikibase admins the option to change certain
configuration options through a UI without directly editing
localsettings.php.
Develop a web service for users to instantly create a temporary
Wikibase sandbox so they can quickly and easily evaluate if the
software is a fit for their project.
Continue to collaborate with OPEN!NEXT <https://opennext.eu/> to
provide support for partners including set up of Wikibase instances,
data modelling, maintenance, and API development.
The most up-to-date versions of the roadmap can be found here:
Wikidata
<https://eu-rm.roadmunk.com/publish/f247f2e06ee338c9997893bd1f9a696fbf2a40ed>
Wikibase
<https://eu-rm.roadmunk.com/publish/695c6bc0060b5a1a0b4a74131acd35137db8b97a>
You can click on the different items to see further information, like
a description or planned start date.
In addition, we’re also presenting status updates
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan/archive2020/status_updates>
on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals.
Please note that the roadmap only presents the main projects that the
development team will work on during 2021. Critical and ongoing tasks
(e.g. maintenance of the software and fixing pressing bugs) are not
mentioned in the roadmap, but will be included in the workflow over
the year. The roadmap is based on estimations and will evolve during
the year. The roadmap does not contain events we are attending or
organizing.
If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to add them on this
talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Development_plan>.
Cheers,
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de/>