User:Discoveranjali/OPW Progress Report

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

Lessons learned since 21 April

 * I shall be working in close collaboration with another OPW intern Helen Helbert who shall be focusing mainly on documentation enhancement and GuidedTours extensions.
 * Learned the technique of working in collaboration with people in different time zones, efficiently.
 * Learned about Trello; a great place to collaborate our work and maintain the status of progress.
 * Got better command on using IRC for communication over email conversation.
 * Learned about the complex copyright issues involved with use and publishing of any content online.
 * Explored various image-editing tools, learned their usage and used some for creating Wikidata headers.

Communication Plan

 * Introduction and discussion with the Wikidata community through the Wikidata discussion list
 * Weekly meeting with Helen and Lydia over at Google Hangout or on freenode
 * Illustration of drafts on Google Documents (or similar platform)
 * Regular reporting of progress on my blog
 * Regular reporting of the progress and problems encountered via emails to the mentor and Wikidata discussion list
 * Discussions about OPW, Wikidata, my project and its issues over #opw on irc.gnome.org
 * Use of Trello for project management and task tracking

Deliverables (Before Mid-term Evaluation)

 * Headers for Wikidata profile on Social media sites; Facebook and Twitter as for now ✅
 * Social media calendar for May,2014-October,2014
 * Presentation serving as tutorial for the step-wise initial contributions to Wikidata
 * Write-up of idea for mobile application and mock-up preparation

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) 'What I Know Is DATA' 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) 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) 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) Added LGBT task force to the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-06-21
 * 2) Witnessed a contradiction on Wikipedia while working on the social media calendar and commented on the talk page.