Thank you all for this! I am just starting to read these, but the structure + framing are helpful. It wouldn't be bad to have a parallel from every sibling Project, even though it will look different w/ each community's models for coordination + planning.
SJ On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:30 PM Lydia Pintscher < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone :) > > More than 7 years ago we started the development of Wikidata. We > started out with the main goal of building a central data store for > Wikipedia. Very quickly we expanded to also covering the other > Wikimedia projects. Then came the interest from people outside > Wikimedia to use Wikidata’s data to build their own apps, websites, > visualisations and more. And last year we witnessed a significant > interest in Wikibase, the software behind Wikidata. This means our > work has expanded very significantly from what we started out with. We > noticed that more and more people need clarity and certainty about > where Wikidata and Wikibase are going. Because of this WMDE and WMF > started discussing this more deeply and wrote down a lot of the things > we have been talking about in the Wikidata and Wikibase communities > over the last years. > > The result of these conversations include one product vision paper and > three product strategy papers that we are publishing today: > * Vision: This paper gives a high-level overview of where we’d like to > see Wikidata and Wikibase evolve and grow, based on the work of the > past 7 years and many conversations with community members, movement > partners, and other stakeholders. > * Wikidata for Wikimedia projects: This paper dives deeper into how we > see Wikidata developing in the context of the Wikimedia projects and > how it can better support the projects. > * Wikidata as a platform: This paper explores the value of Wikidata as > a source of data for others outside Wikimedia to build upon. > * Wikibase Ecosystem: This paper goes deeper into the idea of the > Wikibase Ecosystem, a network of Wikibase instances which share data > and other capacities. > > I would love for you to read these papers now and give your feedback. > We are collecting feedback until the end of October and will then > integrate it as appropriate into a second iteration of the papers. > > The papers are published at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Strategy/2019. Please leave > your feedback and questions on the associated talk page. > > I am looking forward to reading your input. > > > Cheers > Lydia > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > Product Manager 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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