Project:Technical workshop

Technical workshop 12 June 2018

• 12–13 Background
• 13–16 Sprints

Participants

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Possible topics / Scope of this year's project

Setting up the Wikidocumentaries MediaWiki and Wikibase

• Walkthrough of Wikibase-docker installation
• Basic MediaWiki configurations
  • User accounts
  • Fighting spam
• Initial data import from Wikidata: local items and properties
• Joining the project in the Wikimedia Phabricator

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 for key user paths

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

Interface: integrating with the underlying data

• JS Framework
  • Vue.js
• API
  • Current MediaWiki API
  • Future enhanced REST API for Wikibase
  • Read-only interface with the SPARQL endpoint
• Working with the data interface only is ok for data imports

Design and usability

• Data imports can be done with the built-in interface
• The separate web interface should be started immediately https://wikidocumentaries.github.io/webtesting/

Content to work with in the summer of 2018

Rephotographing the images of 1918

• Places: Suomenlinna and more planned
• Content pulled from Finna to Ajapaik app
• Geographic information saved to Wikimedia Commons
• Images, data saved to Ajapaik
• Arrange library scanning events with ScanTent
• Rephotography safaris
• How can Wikidocumentaries make use of the data?

Lighthouses, archipelago, houses and inhabitants

• Places: A possible lighthouse renovation camp, inhabitants of Åvensor and nearby places
• ScanTent collection event
• Rephotography safaris

Museum collaborations

• Suolahti old railway station / Gallen-Kallela Museum

Data imports

• Import of war casualties registers / In collaboration with the National Archives
• Buildings in Finland from Wikidata

Navigation

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