Project:Technical workshop

Technical workshop 12 June 2018

• 12–13 Background
• 13–16 Sprints

Possible topics / Scope of this year's project

Setting up the Wikidocumentaries MediaWiki and Wikibase

• Walkthrough of Wikibase-docker installation, basic MediaWiki configurations, setting up local properties for the Wikibase

Key functionalities

• Displaying the related Wikipedia content: Wikipedia article + Wikidata infobox
• Aggregating images from Finna to a topic
• Adding information
  • Navigating to edit a Wikipedia article
  • Navigating to edit a Wikidata item
  • Uploading an image:
    • Wikimedia Commons with a link to the topic
    • Some other service (Flickr?) with a link to the topic
  • Adding a topic in Wikidocumentaries
  • Adding a local article, a testimonial

Workflow for images

• Finna – Wikidocumentaries – Wikimedia Commons
• Finna – Ajapaik mobile app – Wikimedia Commons

Scenarios fo key user paths

• Finding information
• Browsing information
• Adding information
  • Images
  • Articles
  • Personal testimonials

Interface design: integrating with the underlying data

• JS Framework
  • Vue.js
• API
  • Current MediaWiki API
  • Future enhanced REST API
  • Read-only interface with the SPARQL endpoint
• Things to do with the built-in interface
  • Data import, such as war casualties records

Content to work with in the summer of 2018

• Rephotographing the images of 1918
• Lighthouses, archipelago, houses and inhabitants
• Museum collaborations
• Personal images for rephotography: The ScanTent tour
• Import of historical person registers