Community bonding period

April 21st - May 18th

First half goals

Use case elicitation & development, finalisation of MVP
Development of initial prototypes for community feedback

Communication plan

Weekly Skype meeting
Team IRC channel #mediawiki-rdfio ^connect
Using Trello board for project management
Sharing Google calendars
Although Phabricator is currently being tested in the organisation, felt it was better to stick to known systems for time being

Lessons learned

There are a number of ways of approaching the core proposition, which need to be further investigated and evaluated
Co-ordination with other related projects is desirable where possible

Other

Discussed possibility of attending SMWCon in Montreal
- Opted to do this and made travel arrangements
- Additional benefit of meeting mentor Joel Sachs in person for intensive planning, learning etc
- Submitted short presentation to event schedule

Weekly reports

Week 1

May 19th - May 25th

Traveled to Canada and met with Joel Sachs to discuss project plans
Set up account on Biowikifarm to use for development
Attended SMWCon in Montreal, taking notes on presentations and networking with other delegates
Spoke to Markus Krötzsch regarding possible co-ordination of project with WikiData
Gave presentation on previous development and future plans for RDFIO

Week 2

May 26th - June 1st

Completed code walkthrough with Samuel Lampa via Skype
Created draft diagram of program flow through files for RDF import, SPARQL import and SPARQL endpoint functions (shared in LucidChart)
Mapped the structure of the complex wikiPages object, to also be made a diagram
Initial draft of use cases for new functionality - after chat with Samuel, this may be divided into more than one module for different levels of use
Experienced difficulties connecting remotely to Biowikifarm, the installation to be used for development - still investigating this
Met with fellow Wikimedia intern Helen Halbert, who was visiting Edinburgh, and compared notes on our projects and remote working

Week 3

June 2nd - June 8th

Published diagrams to project documentation on GitHub
Fixed SSH issue and set up connection to Biowikifarm
Discussed development plan and priorities, and documented this
Discussed development setup and release schedule
Reviewed current unit tests for RDFIO, for further discussion with Samuel
Further research of templating and draft method for page updates using templates

Week 4

June 9th - June 15th

Added graphs for SMW software to WikiApiary
Discussed existing tests and development needs with Samuel
Further research into development setup and user capabilities
New development machine (Ubuntu laptop) setup

Had to take some time off this week due to illness - work schedule revision required

Week 5

June 16th - June 22nd

Troubleshooting of Biowikifarm installation
Requested & got Wikilabs project set up for use as a development and testing environment
Further research & documentation of new functionality

Week 6

June 23rd - June 29th

Local installation completed
Running and troubleshooting of unit tests in local and remote environments
Documentation of changes for release 1.9.6
Beginning code changes
Speaker mentoring session with Jen Myers

Week 7

June 30th - July 6th

Fixed admin page visibility
New feature branch created from development branch
Renamed ARC2Admin page and added sections for other admin controls

Week 8

July 7th - July 13th

Prepared & delivered presentation on project at Open Knowledge meetup at the Scottish Parliament
Further changes on the feature-admin_page branch
Development of wiki page data model for storing information on data sources and templates

Week 9

July 14th - July 20th

feature-admin_page branch work completed, and branch merged into develop
Work on import source data model within the wiki

Week 10

July 21st - July 27th

Add Data Source function added to create pages for import URLs
Work on creating pages for categories and properties on install - implementation postponed

Week 11

July 28th - August 3rd

Refactoring of common functions from import pages to RDF Importer class
Release 1.9.6 branch created, pull request raised to merge into master

Week 12

August 4th - August 10th

Revisions to release 1.9.6 based on mentor feedback
Research on removing Wiki Object Model dependency - it has no available documentation so contacted developers, who don't have any either!
Removed parts of WOM usage in SMW writer

Week 13

August 11th - August 17th

Release 1.9.6 launched
Documentation updated
Wiki Object Model dependency removed (particularly important as this extension is no longer maintained)
Template parsing added to SMW writer
Updating template calls on page completed for properties in the template