WMDE Engineering/Wikidata

This page reflects relevant information about the Wikidata project. This page is maintained by the Software Development & Engineering department at Wikimedia Deutschland. Please consider we plan and review in a calendar year (January - December) - that means that Q1 is January to March, Q2 is April to June, Q3 is July to September and Q4 is October to December.

Baselines and metrics Q4 2017 & forecast Q1 2018
The use of Wikidata data in Wikimedia projects continues to increase significantly and the Wikimedia communities are holding important discussions about the integration of data in their articles.

* Due to large data imports in Q4 from 2-3 users, the number of statements per item has increased excessively and the number of edits per page has decreased. The figures will have recalibrated again in the next quarter. A solution to the problem is discussed with the community.

** This indicator describes "entity usage", i. e. the total number of Wikidata data uses in the Wikimedia projects. We recalculate this metric since mid Q3, which has changed the baseline. We count the number of data usages differently or include other data in the measurement. In particular, we now count the so-called "language fallbacks" more precisely. Language fallbacks "occur when data is not available in a particular language, but in another language that the user can be assumed to speak. The data is then displayed in the other language (with a note).

Baselines and metrics Q3 2017 & forecast Q4 2017
* large imports are massively skewing these numbers in the current quarter ** the way language fallbacks are taken into account has changed, setting the baseline for this metric back significantly

Baselines and metrics Q2 2017 & forecast Q3 2017
* We assume that is the general summer dip, we already know this user behaviour from the last years.

Baselines and metrics Q3 & forecast* for Q4 2016
* PM assumption and forecast based on data analytics

Baselines and metrics Q2 & forecast* for Q3 2016
* PM assumption and forecast based on data analytics

** The increase is there because the Commons Community migrated one or two large templates to make use of Wikidata.

*** We assume that is the general summer dip, but we will investigate more in the next quarter.

Baselines and metrics Q1 & forecast* for Q2 2016
* PM assumption and forecast based on data analytics

Quarterly Reporting 2015

 * Quarterly Review Quarter IV 2015
 * Quarterly Review Quarter III 2015
 * Quarterly Review Quarter II 2015
 * Quarterly Review Quarter I 2015

Development Plan
The development plan is an overview of the larger development topics that.

Analytics & Metrics
You can find further relevant metrics and real time data around Wikidata in our dashboards.