Data & Developer Hub

A central place for 3rd-party developers to access our data sets and experiment with our APIs

Group:	Platform, UX, Analytics/Research and Data
Start:	2013-12
End:
Team:	Moiz Syed, Dario Taraborelli, Juliusz Gonera, Jared Zimmerman, Brad Jorsch
Lead:	Sumana Harihareswara
Status:	See updates

In an effort to support transparency and dissemination of our knowledge base, the Wikimedia Foundation has developed a number of repositories of free and open datasets, as well as made its APIs freely available. However these APIs and their documentation are currently scattered across several projects, with no central location for people to learn about and build upon them.

Our proposal is for a central "Wikimedia Developer Hub", which will house all Wikimedia developer community related content. Once built, we propose to host the project on dev.wikimedia.org.

Goals[edit | edit source]

To inspire developers everywhere to build new things using data available from Wikimedia projects.
To be the central resource where developers can find a way to contribute to Wikimedia projects and build new things on top of the Wikimedia data.
To be a friendly and inviting sandbox environment where new and experienced developers can try out different Wikimedia APIs.

Areas of focus[edit | edit source]

Project showcase, examples
Sandbox & widgets
Data sets
OAuth
APIs
Documentation
Related news and announcements
Community Help

Get involved[edit | edit source]

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/jgonera/wddh (temporary)
Prototype: http://juliuszgonera.com/wddh/ (temporary)
IRC channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ddh
Live notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wddh

Structure[edit | edit source]

Wireframe of the hub's landing page
Alternative wireframe of the home page
Wireframe of the description page of an example project showcased on the hub
Wireframe of an API documentation page

The hub as currently proposed would be divided into three sections:

"Inspire": where cool projects are showcased; links to more detailed project description pages
"Explore": where users can play with the API in a functional sandbox
"Build": where all the static official documentation and pointers to data sets reside

Requirements[edit | edit source]

Inspire[edit | edit source]

A curated collection of projects created using data from Wikimedia projects.
Means of submitting a project to be considered for showcase.

Build[edit | edit source]

Documentation at different technical levels.
An organized list of APIs and datasets available.

Community[edit | edit source]

Way of requesting new datasets and/or APIs.
Related news, features, and announcements.
A way for the community to get in touch with WMF folks for help on projects.

Internal resources for developers[edit | edit source]

The following is a list of resources housed across multiple locations to help developers build using Wikimedia data. Feel free to add to the list below.