Here you will find a non binding tech focused vision of Wikidata and Wikibase generated from the overarching vision and strategy.
The latest strategy for Linked Open Data was published in 2021. Previous 2019 papers are still availible.
The joint vision highlights strengthening Wikidata and building out the Wikibase ecosystem.
Key strategies with a focus around Strengthen Wikidata are:
- Empower the community to increase data quality
- Facilitate equity in decision making
- Increase re-use for increased impact
- Strengthen underrepresented languages
- Enable Wikimedia Projects to share their workload
Key strategies with a focus around Build out the Wikibase Ecosystem are
- Empower knowledge curators to share their data
- Ecosystem enablement
- Connect data across technological & institutional boundaries
Key:
- 🎬 Just started
- 🧪 Prototyped in some way
- 🚧 In progress
- ✔️ Done
## Frontends
- Consistent UI technology
- 🚧Component system
- More efficent & easier to use based editiung interface
## APIs
- Modern & Versioned APIs (🚧REST APIs, 🧪GraphQL)
- Async & batch editing
- Better rate control
## Code repositories
- Consistency
- Documentation
- Developer onboarding
## MediaWiki Extensions
- Use modern MediaWiki features & services
- 🎬Abstract MediaWiki binding
## Developers
- 🚧Fast, features, consistent Development Environment
- 🚧Architecture documentation
- Documentation & Onboarding
- Path to contribution
- Outreach & Communication
- SDKs / Client libraries
## General
- More efficient entity change saving
- Modern Edit / Action filter
- Granular entity alterations
## Wikimedia
- 🎬Subgraphs
- Micro contributions
- Inter project reconciliation
- Dataset dumps and exposure
## Wikibase users
- Wikibase Core
- Include gadgets
- Better Defaults
- Other Services
- Misc Triple store support
- Tool landscape standardization
- MediaWiki Extensions
- Alternate Authentication methods
- Spam protection
- Faster & Bulk imports