Wow, just received this email from Lydia at Wikidata in Berlin, after attending Wikidata office hours on Friday morning, and WUaS's monthly business meeting on Saturday morning, Pacific Time. I'm including some of my replies after this about developing WUaS newly in Wikidata. This is momentous ...
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Scott MacLeod
<sgkmacleod@
> Hi Lydia,
>
> In what ways could we get possibly please get a WUaS student application
> process working in Wikidata by September 1st, first in English, per
> http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
> Thank you and cheers!Hey :)
Do you already have a candidate? Do you already know what exactly they
should be working on? And what would be needed from the Wikidata
community or the development team?
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.
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
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Hey from Stanford :)
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Wikidata office hours from Friday:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-07-08-16.03.log.html
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Scott MacLeod
<sgkmacleod@
> Hi Lydia,
>
> In what ways could we get possibly please get a WUaS student application
> process working in Wikidata by September 1st, first in English, per
> http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
> Thank you and cheers!Hey :)
Do you already have a candidate? Do you already know what exactly they
should be working on? And what would be needed from the Wikidata
community or the development team?
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.
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.
*
Hey from Stanford :)
Thanks for your email - and very nice to hear from you directly, Lydia!!!
I have no coding candidate for this in mind (other than possibly some of the Wikidatans/Wikimedians I met in early January (Gabriel.W., Jan.Z., Ryan.K.), or even Markus.K., Denny.V., Daneil.K., Magnus.M. - who are probably very focused in other directions. Someone form Univ of Dresden - G.W.?
I have very clearly and exactly the big plan in mind, but not how to begin to develop within the structure of Wikidata/Wikibase with possibly WUaS MediaWiki as "front end" or how to work within Wikidata/Wikibase, in term of already knowing "already know what exactly they should be working on." And the ramifications of planning for different related aspects of this initial student application/course catalog process are "Wikidata"-enormous.
One approach would be for me to begin to co-formulate some RFCs in Phabricator with such a candidate or Wikidata-WUaS lead developer, in terms of what "would be needed from the Wikidata community or the development team."
I'd also like to have input in development (including hands on) and design questions. Do you have a candidate in mind who knows Wikidata/Wikibase/SQL, and who has a keen/beautiful sense of design too?
Thank you ... hoping WUaS in Wikidata can be a growth story for the web!
Cheers, Scott
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Hey Lydia,
As a followup, Joachim D, whom I met at Stanford last autumn at a DBPedia event with Dimitris K. and Marco F., could be a candidate / lead developer. :)
Cheers, Scott
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Hey Lydia,
As further followup, and in terms of already knowing "what exactly they should be working on," here are two archived versions of WUaS in MediaWiki, from after January 4,5,6 WMF Developers conference in SF :)
In English (there are 2-3 other WUaS MediaWiki pages in the web archive):
In German:
These are only a start, and don't explore interfacing with Wikidata/Wikibase.
In a March 7, 2016 Wikidata office hour, I had asked about how to make these work again here - http://wm-bot.wmflabs.org/
It's possible that what Rob L and Jan Z posted over the weekend could be relevant to making WUaS MediaWiki work again here - https://phabricator.
And all re the questions you asked me earlier today, and this recent blog post of mine - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
Thank you.
Cheers, Scott
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Wikidata office hours from Friday:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-07-08-16.03.log.html
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WUaS monthly business meeting from Saturday:
