On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine_w...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Wikidata has grown rapidly the past weeks, a community of users is active > now, and we are just in the beginning of Wikidata, but still already > tremendous work already has been done with all the items with interwiki's > added. We all have picked up Wikidata enthusiastic, and I think we all want > to get further with it very much. The project fits the needs of the > communities very much. > > My personal background is to translate and explain the technical stuff to > users on wiki's, and return the feedback to the developers, as most users > consider bugzilla and technical things far far far away. > > The weekly summary is great to have, but for more transparency it would be > nice to have a time line, or otherwise a clear (expected) date when the next > big change will be (like with the deployment of new MediaWiki versions). > Reading the e-mails and reading on meta, I almost only see the technical > changes which are coming, but for the communities on Wikidata and Wikipedia's > it would be great to know when the next step in content adding will be > possible.
There are simply no fixed dates for that. That's the reason no dates are published ;-) It's basically done when it is done. I am sorry we can't be more specific about that. There are things influencing schedules that are out of our hand. > Also it would be nice to have a list of those things that will be possible in > the future, but have no date yet to be implemented. The reason for this is > double: > * On local communities I notice a lot of stories, fables and myths of how > Wikidata will be in future, but often with no ground. Please name them and I am happy to give a definitive answer. > * Also there are a lot of things that would have potential on Wikidata. Yes > sure, I can add it to Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team but already my > last comment is archived somewhere and out of sight. Everything there is looked at and handled by me. Things we will implement are moved to bugzilla. Nothing is lost. > I think it would be good to make clear which specific content additions will > be possible in future. I think we should have a list which states what > content will be in next deployment and what content will be later on. I read > somewhere about Link_FA, Link_GA, but also IMDb, IBDB, VIAF, but also of > course Commons. A lot others are too on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control Neither of those will be in the next deployment. It is pretty certain that all of them will be possible at some point. > Currently VIAF is in discussion and willing to be added on some wiki's, but > with Wikidata it can be done much easier. Any plans for it? Linking to a VIAF id? That will be possible. I can't tell you when. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 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 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
