Extension:RDFIO/Template matching for RDFIO/Reports

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