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
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