QuickStatements 3.0

Launch of the Open Call for Software Collaboration for Wikidata by Wikimedia Deutschland and the Arcadia Fund.

Wikimedia Brasil submitted three projects: Mobile app for Wikidata, Wiki Infographics MVP and QuickStatements 3.0.

QuickStatements 3.0 was one of the projects selected.

WMB hired developers and build the team to work on QuickStatements.

• Start of Wikidata community members analysis through EditGroups and Wikimedia Statistics.

• The first task was to build a technical development plan.

Technical Plan for QuickStatements 3.0 was released.

• Preparation of the community consultation methodology and questions.

• Beginning of the first cicle of development;
• Repository and infrastructure of the project implemented.

• Community consultation runned from August 12 until August 31;
• WMB used an instance of LimeSurvey provided by Wikimedia Portugal.

• Interface with current functionalities was implemented in Toolforge (frontend and backend);
• Parsers (V1 and CSV) set.

• Community consultation results compiled and analysed;
• Preparation of the methodology and questions of interviews with Wikidata community contributors.

• Completed the integration with the REST API, giving feedback;
• Backend API documented;
• Application to Outreachy: Quickstatements 3.0 public documentation.

• Execution of interviews with Wikidata community contributors;
• Transcription and start of compilation and analysis of the interviews.

• Revisions of pull requests and adjustments before releasing for testing;
• Analysis of the contributions and selection of an Outreachy intern.

• Continuing the compilation and analysis of the interviews.

• Refactor of the code that deal with command types and errors;
• Expansion of the reserved commands and syntax.

• Continuing the compilation and analysis of the interviews;
• Revising the community priorities within the development.

• Beginning of the Outreachy intern;
• Final adjustments on the most desired functionalities.

• Creation of the communications plan;
• Internal drafting of the user stories.

• Deployment of 6 of the most desired functionalities;

• Add or remove qualifiers and references preserving the rest of the statement;
• Add multiple statements with different qualifiers;
• Set and edit ranks for statements;
• Aggregate set of commands of the same item in one unique edit;
• Improve error report before running the batches;
• Report of the batches (items edited, created and errors).

• Review of the user stories;
• Documentation validation.

• End of the Outreachy internship about the documentation of the project;
• Multi-thread batches allow concurrent batches to run at the same time and refrain blocked users to create batches;

• Review of the user stories;
• Gathering and analysis of feedback from Wikidata community members.

• Implementation of the rerun button (from v2);
• Allow multiple Wikibase URLs.

• Publication of the user stories.

• Implementation of a statistics page for the tool;
• Changes in the interface to display localized values, qualifiers and references;
• Specification of calendar for date values;
• Specification of precision and globe for coordinate values.