Roadmap

Hello World phase

Goal: a self-hosted Wikibase running at a real domain, populated with this project's own architectural decisions as a wikified table — demonstrating cell-as-wiki and schema-as-wiki on real project content from day one.

Step	Description	Status
1	Scaffold repo layout + bootstrap docs	✅ Done
2	infra/docker-compose.yml (Wikibase Suite)	✅ Done
3	infra/config/Extensions.php (federation + CC0 + user groups)	✅ Done
4	seed/schema.yaml + seed/open-questions.tsv	✅ Done
5	seed/pages/ (Main_Page, About, ...)	⏳ In progress
6	bots/seed_load.py (idempotent seed loader)	⏳ Pending
7	infra/config/traefik-dynamic.yml + deployment recipe	✅ Done
8	User: provision VPS, register domain, first deploy	⏳ User action

User actions blocking public deployment

• Register a domain
• Provision a VPS (≥ 4 GB RAM recommended for Elasticsearch + Blazegraph headroom)
• Point DNS at the VPS
• Set admin credentials in infra/.env on first boot

Steps 1–7 do not depend on these — they all run locally on Docker Compose.

Post-Hello-World phases

Phase A — CellHistory extension

Custom MediaWiki extension surfacing per-statement edit history as a first-class UI. The principal engineering investment of this project — it's the gap between Wikibase and our "every cell is a wiki" requirement.

Phase B — Bots and export

bots/wikidata_sync.py (curated import/export with Wikidata) and bots/export_mirror.py (scheduled wiki → markdown mirror for offline / GitHub-search discoverability).

Phase C — TrustGraph extension

Stake-and-slash vouching system per Trust Model. Weeks of work; meaningfully more complex than CellHistory.

Phase D — Oversight policy

Document the appeal process for RevisionDelete and suppression; establish the audit trail; train initial oversighters.

Phase E — Federation hardening

Scheduled RDF dump publishing; SPARQL endpoint hardening; QuickStatements push-to-Wikidata workflow for notable facts.

Phase F — User's specific site (Goal ii)

The particular wikified-database site the user originally intended, implemented on the now-mature infrastructure.

Phase G — Adoption packaging (Goal i)

Turn infra/ + extensions/ + bots/ + seed/ into a forkable deployment template other organizations can adopt with minimal setup.

The full decision log is maintained as wikified data — see the Architectural decision class page once the seed loader has populated the data.