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.

Community Bonding Period

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.

Introduction and discussion with the Wikidata community through the Wikidata discussion list
Weekly meeting with Helen and Lydia over at Google Hangout or #wikidata-opw ^connect 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

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 [Optional]
Write-up of idea for mobile application and mock-up preparation [Optional]

Documented ideas for Headers(Draft-1) and demonstrated them to my mentor over Google Doc
Attended ECT Meeting at #wikimedia-office ^connect on 20th May, 16:00 UTC
Created more headers(Draft-2) based on ideas selected by mentor out of all the ideas proposed
Social media calendar for May,2014
Proposed a Facebook group for Wikidata targeted to college youth
Created a Facebook group(as proposed) 'Wikidata Creds' for my institution

Learned about copyright issues involved with images used for headers.
Embedded author attribution involved with copyrighted content into images used for media calendar
Rendered next draft(Draft-3) of Headers for mentor review
Regular posts about Wikidata to the Facebook group created
Attended Welcome meeting for OPW Interns on #opw (irc.gnome.org) on 27th May, 15:00 UTC

Completed Social media calendar for June,2014
Created and got reviewed(by Lydia) the Email draft for Copyright Holders
Scanned Wikidata profile on Facebook and Twitter and generated a report about posts that attained most interest
Rough plan and proposal of an automated tool for filtering interest generators on Wikidata social media profiles

Completed Social media calendar for July,2014
Collection of email contacts of copyright holders of images used for Headers
Mailed all concerned copyright holders seeking permission for using some images authored by them
Exploring Facebook API(s) as part of creating an automation script

Completed Social media calendar for August,2014
Started work on a List of prospective Showcase Items to assist tweets/posts about Showcasing them
Developed a script for automated email reminders for events from 'Social media calendar' and embedded it to the Calendar
Added LGBT task force to the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-06-21
Witnessed a contradiction on Wikipedia while working on the social media calendar and commented on the talk page
Posts/tweets relevant to Showcasing Items on Wikidata Creds, Twitter, Google+ etc.

Completed Social media Calendar for October,2014
Added items in preparation to be Showcased to 'List of Prospective Items for Showcase'
Created a draft of ideas layout of Slideshow tutorials

Analysis of past presentations developed for Wikidata meetups, as part of development of Slideshow tutorials for Wikidata workshops
Studied the documentation on introduction to Wikidata' by Helen (for slideshow content)
Analysed Wikidata Statistics for the same

Reworked the automated script for social media message calendar email reminder.
Worked on the first draft of slideshow tutorial aiming at introduction to Wikidata
Surfed through Twitter and other online sources as part of study to start interactive online discussions on social profiles of Wikidata

Proposed and started a list of topics for interactive discussions pertaining to Wikidata on social media
Improved on review the first draft for slideshow 'Introduction to Wikidata'
Reviewed Portal Redesign draft by Helen and rendered feedback

Completed Social media calendar for November, 2014
Completed the first draft of slideshow tutorial for introduction to Wikidata
Completed a list of topics for interactive discussions on social media for Wikidata

Received reviews from mentor for improvement of the first draft of slideshow tutorial created
Added more topics to topics for interactive discussions on social media based on suggestions and ideas received
Created some images and plan layout for initial Wikidata discussion topics on its online social profiles

Completed social media calendar for December,2014
Started first interactive discussion on Wikidata Creds and Twitter pertaining to 'favorite Wikidata Item'
Started translation of Wikidata Tours in Hindi
Complete the final draft of Slideshow tutorial for Wikidata workshop