Structured Data on Commons: A Nine-Month Report for the Sloan Foundation Prepared by Caitlin Virtue (
[email protected]), Amanda Bittaker (
[email protected]) and Jonathan Curiel November 1, 2017 Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, Sixth Floor – San Francisco, CA 94105 – U.S. • +1.415.839.6885 • wikimediafoundation.org Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Who’s Who on the Project 4 Amanda Bittaker, Program Manager 4 Sandra Fauconnier, Community Liaison and GLAM Liaison 5 Nirzar Pangarkar, Design Manager 6 Jonathan Morgan, Senior Design Researcher 6 Pam Drouin, UX Designer 7 Daniel Kinzler, Technical Lead at Wikimedia Deutschland 7 Lydia Pintscher, Product Manager for Wikidata 8 Ramsey Isler, Multimedia Product Manager 9 Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist 10 Planning Structured Data on Commons: Creating a Stellar Action Plan 12 Software Engineering: Laying the Groundwork for Structured Data on Commons 16 Test Federation: 16 Multi-Content Revisions: 20 Community Input: The Work of Jarek Tuszynski 23 Nine Months in Review: A Timeline of Key Developments 25 Research and Interviews: Finding the Sweet Spot for Structured Data on Commons 28 Research-Driven Design: How Structured Data on Commons Is Coming to Life 31 Researching Usage: How to Measure the Effectiveness of Structured Data on Commons 39 Deliverables: What We Achieved in Engineering and Other Project Work 41 Where People Are Learning About — and Discussing — Structured Data on Commons 50 Appendixes 51 Wikimedia Foundation Report for the Sloan Foundation • November 1, 2017 • Page "i Executive Summary On the morning of Saturday, August 12, as Sandra Fauconnier was setting up for her talk at Wikimania – Wikimedia’s biggest annual conference of the year – Commons users, Wikipedia contributors, software engineers, and others began crowding into her Montreal conference room, eager to hear what she would say.