Status update
With Discourse mirror revision / #1426 now wrapped up, my development attention will go back to the initiatives plugin.
Note these improvements include the “Get necessary (missing) information from Discourse API” step. So that is now done. 
The first thing I’ll be working from now is to add Initiatives to the graph. It would be a pretty bare-bones version without cred bounties or universal reference detection. From there I’ll add in the improvements.