WikiHunt the 'Property': Wikidata Outreach Initiative

WikiHunt the 'Property': Wikidata Outreach Initiative

 * Public URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nl3gSqKKJbmf_Sl0k4ZCe3AM2hEwZ9hfw7zhjBxTAvU/edit?usp=sharing
 * Bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61991
 * Announcement: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-March/075364.html

Name and contact information
http://in.linkedin.com/pub/anjali-sharma/70/324/a79 (LinkedIn Profile)
 * Name: Anjali Sharma
 * Email: sharma.anjali3110@gmail.com
 * IRC or IM networks/handle(s): discoveranjali on IRC
 * Web Page / Blog / Microblog / Portfolio: http://discoveranjali.wordpress.com/ (Blog)
 * Resume (optional): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-WYsBjm5Vo6MGROMWphdjhXR2c/edit?usp=sharing
 * Location: Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
 * Typical working hours: Daily average of 7-8 working hours, ideally between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Indian Standard Time)

Synopsis
Wikidata : ‘A Game-Changer for Wikipedia and Beyond’ as it claims, is a brand new initiative of Wikimedia foundation. Centralised integration of entire sum of knowledge accessible to all is its unique vision. This seeks quality expertise and contributions of millions of contributors and open source enthusiasts.However, despite its exceptional vision, the project launched in 2012 is yet to create a high profile of its own, thus, failing to gain the needed amount and pace of quality contributions to the work. The focus therefore needs to be diverted to an agile methodology of development parallel to a large scale outreach program as the quality and quantity of contributions becomes an integral component of Wikidata success.

This proposal as a work for the Outreach Program for Women, aims to render innovative approaches and ideas to create targeted and efficient outreach for the Wikidata project. The primary idea I propose here, besides documentation improvement and social media campaigning, is creation of a mobile application WikiHunt the ‘Property’ to attract contributions from mobile users in a fun filled environment. In the later phase of the project, this application shall be extended to create a facebook application and desktop application as well.


 * Possible mentors: Lydia Pintscher

Deliverables
The core features I plan to accomplish and deliver in this internship period include ( details mentioned in my detailed proposal ):
 * Creation of vedio tutorials and screen snapshots for help pages
 * Complete Designing (including wireframing, usecases etc.) of the proposed mobile application WikiHunt the 'Property'
 * Make the documentation theme-based (story-telling format)
 * Create multimedia content and quizzes for social networking sites
 * Introducing questionnaire section in help page [Optional]
 * Introducing rating option on Items pages [Optional]

The complete timeline for these deliverables can also be found on my detailed proposal

Participation
I am an Information Technology student. Thus technology always attracts me. Also, creative work is my passion. Creative writing, paper craft, innovative experimantation with images, vedios is my niche. Thus, an amalgam of technological work with creative content to work on is definitely the best to drive out the best in me. I have been President of School Parliament, President of School Literary Club and am currently a member of the Technical Club of IIIT-Allahabad (India). Thereby, I can assure of my sound leadership skills. Besides, I have good communication and writing skills as well which perhaps are greatly demanded for 'Wikidata Outreach'.

I will keep mentors updated of my work through regular emails, content demos at pastebin and github repositories (if needed). Further, I shall be available during working hours at IRC to communicate my work, seek feedback from community members and ask for help. I shall remain in direct contact via email conversation with my mentor Lydia throughout the term of the project. Helping newbies through Wikidata contributions shall be a part of daily work as well.

About you
Education in progress. Currently I am pursuing my Bachelor's degree(3rd year) in Information Technology from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India.
 * Education completed or in progress:

My brother is a Google Summer of Code alumni and came to know about this parallel initiative being run for women. I, thus, got a first hand information of this exciting opportunity through him. Later I researched about the program on gnome website and via lurking on #opw and #gnome IRC channels.
 * How did you hear about this program?

I shall be available full time from 19th May to 19th July working more than 45 hours a week. My college reopens then, so I shall have classes, but I assure to be available and working an average of 35 hours a week then. I shall strive to accomplish the most significant phase and majority of my project work prior to the end of my summer vacations.
 * Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc., during the duration of the program?

No, I am only applying to Outreach Program for Women. Despite being an Information Technology student, I plan to work on this non-coding project this summer as the project prospects sync with my passion for creativity and writing skills.
 * We advise all candidates eligible to Google Summer of Code and FOSS Outreach Program for Women to apply for both programs. Are you planning to apply to both programs and, if so, with what organization(s)?

Past experience

 * Please describe your experience with any other FOSS projects as a user and as a contributor:

I am a newbie to Open source community and this is my first-hand effort to contribution to a FOSS. For the 'Wikidata Outreach' project, therefore, I have done a number of edits to the page adding new items, labels, descriptions and contributing to translations in Hindi. A list of my contributions can be found at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Discoveranjali


 * Please describe any relevant projects that you have worked on previously and what knowledge you gained from working on them (include links):

I list of my projects and their description can be found in my resume : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-WYsBjm5Vo6MGROMWphdjhXR2c/edit?usp=sharing

I learned the technique of technical writing (as relevant to this project) writing project descriptions and reviews. I had a first-hand experience of developing an Android application. My projects mainly have been on data mining and so developing algorithms to find patterns in data was also an important lesson. Software Engineering projects taught me to professionally accomplish the design phase of a software (as I aim to do in this project) developing wireframes, usecases, object and collaboration diagrams etc.

Any other info
Here is a link to my first blog. I am working to populate it with interesting content about 'Wikidata'. You can have a look of it here : discoveranjali.wordpress.com Link to my Wikidata profile: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Discoveranjali