Dear Wikibase Cloud Community,
We're currently working to expand and improve the process around the
Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) allowlist—the list of external SPARQL
endpoints that WDQS can federate queries to. The reason why we focus on
endpoints at this stage, is because we are motivated to make federation as
easy as possible for those who struggled with it in the past but also for
those who would like to do more of it. To get a better understanding of
what this experience shall look like, we would like to learn more about how
you made use of the current allowlist as well as what didn't work out for
you.
If you’ve been waiting to get an endpoint added or have tried and failed in
the past, now is the time to let us know.
We're especially interested in:
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Endpoints you use regularly but can’t federate to from WDQS
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Wikibases you manage (e.g., on Cloud or Suite) that you’d like to
nominate
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Endpoints that were proposed before but never got added
You can share your proposals by creating a ticket on Phabricator using this
template
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?title=Add%20%…>
.
If you’re struggling to make the request this way, also feel free to just
drop us an email at anton.kokh(a)wikimedia.de. Make sure to include:
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A link to the dataset/project homepage
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Motivating for adding it
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SPARQL endpoint URL
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Information about the dataset/project’s license.
You can keep track of these in a dedicated ticket, where we will list all
incoming requests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402893.
Thanks for helping us make query federation more useful and adaptive!
Valerie on behalf of Wikibase Cloud
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
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Hello everyone,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Gentle reminder that the Fall 2025 MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference<https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conf…> will be held on October 28–30th, and hosted by the TIB Leibniz Centre in Hanover, Germany.
On behalf of the Program Committee with this email we want to extend an invitation for tutorial proposals on any topic related to MediaWiki usage, deployment or development, including the MediaWiki extension ecosystem (Wikibase, Semantic MediaWiki, etc). Tutorials can be up to 90 mins long and held in hybrid format.
The call for contributions<https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conf…> remains open until September 5th. To propose a tutorial or any other form of contribution talk for this conference, just <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Talk?Talk%5BConfer…> fill out this form<https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Talk?Talk%5BConfer…>.
Everyone is encouraged to attend, to meet and discuss MediaWiki-related topics relating to both the Wikimedia world and uses within companies, organizations, etc.
Thank you, and I hope to see many of you in Hanover!
Lozana Rossenova, on behalf of the conference team
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Dr. Lozana Rossenova
Postdoc Researcher
Open Science Lab
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library
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Dear Community,
Wikiba.se had a makeover 🎉
We revamped the wikiba.se website by changing the colors according to our
framework as well as updating the showcases and uploading case studies.
A special highlight is the new video in which we try to explain what
Wikibase is in a very short amound of time and in a creative manner.
We hope you enjoy this new experience, and we are curious to hear what you
think!
Tadaaaa ✨
Here it is: wikiba.se.
Have a lovely weekend and see you soon.
Valerie Wollinger (She/Her)
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de
Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia,
Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe
now <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>.
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our
vision!https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg, VR
23855 B. Als gemeinnĂĽtzig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt fĂĽr
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende
Vorständin: Franziska Heine