User:Leszek Manicki (WMDE)/WMDE Engineering/Projects

Wikidata is a free linked database that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others. Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects! The content of Wikidata is available under a free license, exported using standard formats, and can be interlinked to other open data sets on the linked data web.

Targets:

Development and maintenance of knowledge database about our world which can be read and edited by machines and humans.
Central provision of database content in all languages of the Wikimedia projects.

Technology: Media Wiki, Wikibase, PHP, JavaScript

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Thiemo Mättig

Wikibase is the software that powers Wikidata but can be used for other projects too. It consists of a bunch of software components and libraries for creating, managing and sharing structured data. It is an open source project and everyone is welcome to join the development.

Targets: Development of MediaWiki extention for the administration of structured data.

Technology: MediaWiki, PHP, Java Script, Ruby, Python

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Thiemo Mättig

Technical Wishes

In a joint process with the German Wikipedia community, technical wishes concerning the Wikipedia software MediaWiki are deployed.

Targets: Improvement of authors' working environment in Wikipedia.

Technology: MediaWiki, PHP, JavaScript

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Fundraising Software

This is the software that powers the fundraising campaigns of WMDE.

Targets: Acquisition of funding for Wikimedia Germany as well as the processing and analysis of donations.

Technology: PHP, JavaScript

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Attribution Generator (Lizenzhinsweisgenerator)

An application that helps to generate a legally correct attribution for images from and for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Targets: Create licensing safety for Creative Commons licenses with regard to the reutilisation of photos saved in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Technology: Java Script, Commons API

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Phragile

Phragile generates sprint overviews and data visualizations (for example burndown, burnup charts) for projects in Phabricator.

Targets: Creates development progress overviews of in Phabricator administrated products and projects.

Technology: PHP, Java Script

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CatGraph

Catgraph is a simple and fast in-memory graph database which supports basic queries such as recursive category search and category intersection search in Wikipedia categories. It backs several tools such as Article List Generator and DeepCat Gadget.

Targets: Create overview of complex categories structures in Wikipedia.

Technology: C++, JavaScript, MediaWiki Gadget

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