User:Prianka/Extras

This page shall include weekly progress reports for the Wikidata Outreach project as a part of Outreach Program for Women for User:Discoveranjali.

= Community bonding report =

Minimum viable product and goals

 * Search for the existing API client libraries, add these to API:Client code.
 * Select the best library/libraries in Python, Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, and Java using preliminary criteria.
 * Research, select, and write up criteria to evaluate these libraries in more depth. Write a library "gold standard."
 * Post "gold standard" and useful resources found while writing it to Data & Developer Hub.
 * Evaluate the best libraries in three languages. To the library maintainers submit documentation of tests and results, praise for where they get things right, and bug reports for areas that can use improvement.

Communication plan

 * Check in daily with Sumana over IRC and/or vidchat
 * Communicate with other mentors over IRC and email with questions, to look over code, etc.

Lessons learned since 21 April

 * Wireless drivers on Linux are a challenge, even for ThinkPads!
 * How to replace (if not how to compile) a kernel in Ubuntu
 * How to set up a virtual environment in Python and install packages to it
 * How various MediaWiki IRC channels are used
 * How to write a twitter-bot, the structure of Wikidata, the Wikidata API, a lot about writing Python programs:
 * https://twitter.com/AutoWikiFacts
 * source at https://github.com/fhocutt/obscure-enwiki-fact
 * How git and github work, including add/commit/rebase
 * submitted patches for Dreamwidth and had them merged: https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pulls/fhocutt?direction=desc&page=1&sort=created&state=closed

Week 1: May 19 to May 25

 * 1) Documented ideas for Headers(Draft-1) and demonstrated them to my mentor over Google Doc
 * 2) Attended ECT Meeting at  on 20th May, 16:00 UTC
 * 3) Created more headers(Draft-2) based on ideas selected by mentor out of all the ideas proposed
 * 4) Social media calendar for May,2014
 * 5) Proposed a Facebook group for Wikidata targeted to college youth
 * 6) Created a Facebook group(as proposed) 'Wikidata Creds' for my institution

Week 2: May 26 to June 1

 * 1) Learned about copyright issues involved with images used for headers.
 * 2) Embedded author attribution involved with copyrighted content into images used for media calendar
 * 3) Rendered next draft(Draft-3) of Headers for mentor review
 * 4) Regular posts about Wikidata to the Facebook group created
 * 5) Attended Welcome meeting for OPW Interns on #opw (irc.gnome.org) on 27th May, 15:00 UTC

Week 3: June 2 to June 8

 * 1) Completed Social media calendar for June,2014
 * 2) Created and got reviewed(by Lydia) the Email draft for Copyright Holders
 * 3) Scanned Wikidata profile on Facebook and Twitter and generated a report about posts that attained most interest
 * 4) Rough plan and proposal of an automated tool for filtering interest generators on Wikidata social media profiles

Week 4: June 9 to June 15

 * 1) Completed Social media calendar for July,2014
 * 2) Collection of email contacts of copyright holders of images used for Headers
 * 3) Mailed all concerned copyright holders seeking permission for using some images authored by them
 * 4) Exploring Facebook API(s) as part of creating an automation script

Week 5: June 16 to June 22

 * 1) Completed Social media calendar for August,2014
 * 2) Started work on a List of prospective Showcase Items to assist tweets/posts about Showcasing them
 * 3) Developed a script for automated email reminders for events from 'Social media calendar' and embedded it to the Calendar
 * 4) Added LGBT task force to the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-06-21
 * 5) Witnessed a contradiction on Wikipedia while working on the social media calendar and commented on the talk page
 * 6) Posts/tweets relevant to Showcasing Items on Wikidata Creds, Twitter, Google+ etc.

Week 6: June 23 to June 29

 * 1) Completed Social media calendar for September,2014
 * 2) Final draft of Headers completed including new headers for Google+ profile
 * 3) Contributed to announcement regarding Wikidata participation in Wikimania 2014
 * 4) Submitted OPW mid-term evaluation report

Week 7: June 29 to July 5

 * 1) Completed Social media Calendar for October,2014
 * 2) Added items in preparation to be Showcased to 'List of Prospective Items for Showcase'
 * 3) Created a draft of ideas layout of Slideshow tutorials

Week 8: July 6 to July 12

 * 1) Analysis of past presentations developed for Wikidata meetups, as part of development of Slideshow tutorials for Wikidata workshops
 * 2) Studied the documentation on introduction to Wikidata' by Helen (for slideshow content)
 * 3) Analysed Wikidata Statistics for the same

Week 9: July 13 to July 19

 * 1) Reworked the automated script for social media message calendar email reminder.
 * 2) Worked on the first draft of slideshow tutorial aiming at introduction to Wikidata
 * 3) Surfed through Twitter and other online sources as part of study to start interactive online discussions on social profiles of Wikidata

Week 10: July 20 to July 26

 * 1) Proposed and started a list of topics for interactive discussions pertaining to Wikidata on social media
 * 2) Improved on review the first draft for slideshow 'Introduction to Wikidata'
 * 3) Reviewed Portal Redesign draft by Helen and rendered feedback

Week 11: July 27 to August 3

 * 1) Completed Social media calendar for November, 2014
 * 2) Completed the first draft of slideshow tutorial for introduction to Wikidata
 * 3) Completed a list of topics for interactive discussions on social media for Wikidata

Week 12: August 4 to August 10

 * 1) Received reviews from mentor for improvement of the first draft of slideshow tutorial created
 * 2) Added more topics to topics for interactive discussions on social media based on suggestions and ideas received
 * 3) Created some images and plan layout for initial Wikidata discussion topics on its online social profiles

Week 13: August 11 to August 17

 * 1) Completed social media calendar for December,2014
 * 2) Started first interactive discussion on Wikidata Creds and Twitter pertaining to 'favorite Wikidata Item'
 * 3) Started translation of Wikidata Tours  in Hindi
 * 4) Complete the final draft of Slideshow tutorial for Wikidata workshop