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May 2024 Wikibase user group meeting (16:00 London, 17:00 Berlin)
by Laurence Parry 30 May '24

30 May '24

It's that time again - the May meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group! This is your chance to present what you've been doing recently, or ask questions of other members, as well as find out what's going on in Wikibase. If you're new to the community, you can get to know other members of the community face-to-face, without leaving the comfort of your home or office. (And if you have to, Jitsi has apps for mobile devices, too.) As usual, we will be meeting online at https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession at 15:00 UTC (16:00 London, 17:00 Berlin), which is just under two hours from now. The meeting notes are at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2024_05_30 - feel free to add to the agenda if you have anything else you wish to present or discuss. Hope to see you there, -- Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry - Wikibase Community User Group https://greenreaper.co.uk - https://furry.wikibase.cloud

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Wikibase Cloud: new status updates page!
by Valerie Wollinger 29 May '24

29 May '24

Dear Wikibase Cloud users, we have exciting news to share with you! You mentioned this wish for a longer time already, and I’m pleased to announce that we came up with something that might solve your need for *greater transparency* on *current incidents* that might impact your activities on your Wikibase. *How so?* Wikibase Cloud is in its baby steps and still in open beta. We work towards becoming more stable and reliable, but we do experience hick-ups along the way. These hick-ups are often experienced and detected through you or by us. We wanted to build a *tool that reflects these hick-ups* in* real time* so that you have a page that you can check whenever you experience unusual patterns or reactions. This is why we set up a dedicated status updates page, see https://wmde.github.io/wikibase-cloud-status/. This *incident tracker* will most importantly inform you about the occasions in which you are directly impacted. It will also tell you about situations that don’t necessarily impact you, but let you learn more about how the software works and reacts. We haven’t mentioned that in a while, but we’d like to remind everyone that we’re working hard towards meeting your needs and offering an infrastructure that supports you in your endeavors. Apart from that, we would like to thank you. For being with us, for spreading the word and for using Wikibase Cloud and thereby working towards a vision in which we all contribute to the sum of all knowledge. Have a wonderful rest of the week and see you soon! Valerie on behalf of Wikibase Cloud 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 gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine, Dr. Christian Humborg

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Interviewees needed :-)
by Valerie Wollinger 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hey everyone, our research team would like to conduct a 60-minute interview with you in the coming weeks (May 13–24) to improve the experience for new users. You don’t need to prepare anything, and you will be compensated for your time. If you are interested, please fill out the following form: https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/WBC-Usability-Research. Thanks so much for your help 🙌 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 gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine, Dr. Christian Humborg

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Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.7 – minor changes
by Valerie Wollinger 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Dear Wikibase Community, We’re thrilled to announce the release of WMDE.18, our security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.7. Changes in short: - WDQS now checks for allowlist.txt instead of whitelist.txt for allowed SPARQL hosts; please see T355893 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355893> and the relevant pull request <https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/pull/625> for details. - WDQS Java switched from OpenJDK to the eclipse-temurin JRE, but stays on Java 8. - WDQS base image switched from Alpine to Debian “bookworm”. - WDQS service now uses the “blazegraph” user instead of uid 666. - WDQS front-end base image changed from node 14 Alpine to node 20 “bookworm”. - MediaWiki 1.39.7 release announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> . Previous changes in the 1.39-based releases: - The folder www-data is no longer world-writable. - MediaWiki 1.39.2 release announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>, 1.39.3 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>, 1.39.4 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>, 1.39.5 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>, 1.39.6 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> . - Release notes for Wikibase 1.39 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibas…> Please also note that, as always, the file LocalSettings.php is world-readable. Viewing it from within the container reveals the database password and secret key. Upgrading your Wikibase Please note that, starting with Wikibase 1.39 release, the Wikibase extension must be enabled in MediaWiki using the Extension Registration mechanism. If you have been providing your own MediaWiki configuration file (LocalSettings.php) for your Wikibase container, make sure to check these upgrade instructions <https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/f2555b07494c9df691cd…> . Are you looking for documentation? Our Wikibase documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase> is the way to go for our installation instructions and FAQ. For Wikibase 1.39 developer documentation, take a look at https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_39/ . Want to know what’s new? Sign up for our mailing list to follow and participate in discussions about Wikibase development: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikibaseug.lists.wikimedia.org/ Got feedback or questions? Join our channels on Telegram https://t.me/+WBsf9-C9KPuMZCDT or https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5755/. We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new version! Best, Valerie, on behalf of the WMDE Wikibase Suite team 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 gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine, Dr. Christian Humborg

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WBUG meeting - Open Call proposals and survey results - 25 April (today) @ 15:00 UTC
by Laurence Parry 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

It's that time again: the often-monthly meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group takes place today at 15:00 UTC (so 16:00 for those of us in the UK, 17:00 in CEST, or 11:00 US EDT): https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession Last month<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/2024…> ended with a brief comment about a call for software development proposals<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Open_Ca…>, kicking off a flurry of behind-the-scenes work by members in collaboration with the Wikibase Stakeholder Group; cumulating in two proposals outlined on today's agenda, for form-filling entity creation and conversion of the existing OpenRefine reconciliation service into an extension: WBUG 2024 04 25<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2024_04_25> Due to the time pressure, these proposals were submitted by the group's WMF contacts - Lozana and myself - prior to this meeting, though not before we were satisfied with them. But they're still only the first step, so we'd like to hear your thoughts today, too! Competition is significant<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Call_Su…>, and there's no guarantee that either proposal will be funded, let alone both. But if they are, we'll need to have further discussions about e.g. how to handle the funds involved - and since we'd have to move reasonably quickly to get things done by the end of the year, it wouldn't hurt to think a bit about that in advance, too. Organizational matters aside, results from a WMDE survey of the Wikibase community<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Summary_Wikibase_Suite_Survey_-_202…> late last year have been released, and we can discuss them, as well as any projects or issues that you need help or advice with or want to share. Hope to see you there, -- Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry - WBUG / WikiFur.com

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Call for Nominations: Coolest Tool Awards 2024! 🛠️
by Joris Quarshie 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

Hi everyone, It’s time for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award!! 🎉 Tools play an essential role at Wikimedia, and so do the many volunteer developers who experiment with new ideas, develop & maintain local & global solutions, and enhance the experience for Wikimedia communities. We’d like to invite you all to nominate your favourite & most used tools and help us celebrate the people who create them! To nominate your favourite tools, simply follow this link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Award_2024. Feel free to submit multiple nominations by completing the form as many times as you'd like. The deadline for Nomination is* May 10th 2024.* For further details on the nomination and selection process, the Coolest Tool Award Academy, and the upcoming award ceremony, please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award. The award is organized & selected by the Coolest Tool Academy. We plan to award the coolest tools in a variety of categories (see last year’s categories for an example). Excitingly, we're returning to an in-person event for the first time since 2019, with winners set to be unveiled at Wikimania 2024. Thank you immensely for your participation and recommendations. Together, let's celebrate innovation and collaboration within the Wikimedia community! Regards, On behalf of the Coolest Tool Academy 2024

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Subject: Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.40.3 – minor changes
by Valerie Wollinger 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

Dear Wikibase Community, We’re thrilled to announce the release of WMDE.19 <https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/releases/tag/wmde.19>, our security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.40.3. WMDE.18, our security releases compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.7, will be coming shortly. Changes in short: - MediaWiki 1.40.3 release announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> Previous changes in the 1.40-based releases: - MediaWiki 1.40 release announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> - MediaWiki 1.40.1 release announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> - MediaWiki 1.40.2 release announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> Please also note that, as always, the file LocalSettings.php is world-readable. Viewing it from within the container reveals the database password and secret key. Upgrading your Wikibase Please note that starting with Wikibase 1.39 release, the Wikibase extension must be enabled in MediaWiki using the Extension Registration mechanism. If you have been providing your own MediaWiki configuration file (LocalSettings.php) for your Wikibase container, make sure to check these upgrade instructions <https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/f2555b07494c9df691cd…> . Are you looking for documentation? Our Wikibase documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase> is the way to go for our installation instructions and FAQ. For Wikibase 1.40 developer documentation, take a look at https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_40/ <https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_40/php/> . Want to know what’s new? Sign up for our mailing list to follow and participate in discussions about Wikibase development: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikibaseug.lists.wikimedia.org/ Got feedback or questions? Join our channels on Telegram https://t.me/+WBsf9-C9KPuMZCDT or https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5755/. We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new version! Best, Valerie, on behalf of the WMDE Wikibase Suite team 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 gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine, Dr. Christian Humborg

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Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.41.1 – minor changes
by Valerie Wollinger 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

Dear Wikibase Community, We’re thrilled to announce the release of WMDE.20 <https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/releases/tag/wmde.20>, our security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.41.1. WMDE.18 and WMDE.19, our security releases compatible with MediaWiki 1.40.3 and 1.39.7 respectively, will be coming shortly. Changes in short: - MediaWiki 1.41.1 release announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> - WDQS now checks for allowlist.txt instead of whitelist.txt for allowed SPARQL hosts; please see T355893 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355893> and the relevant Pull Request <https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/pull/625> for details. Previous changes in the 1.41-based releases: - MediaWiki 1.41 release announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> Please also note that, as always, the file LocalSettings.php is world-readable. Viewing it from within the container reveals the database password and secret key. Upgrading your Wikibase Please note that starting with the Wikibase 1.39 release, the Wikibase extension must be enabled in MediaWiki using the Extension Registration mechanism. If you have been providing your own MediaWiki configuration file (LocalSettings.php) for your Wikibase container, make sure to check these upgrade instructions <https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/f2555b07494c9df691cd…> . Are you looking for documentation? Our Wikibase documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase> is the way to go for our installation instructions and FAQ. For Wikibase 1.41 developer documentation, take a look at https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_41/ <https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_41/php/> . Want to know what’s new? Sign up for our mailing list to follow and participate in discussions about Wikibase development: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikibaseug.lists.wikimedia.org/ Got feedback or questions? Join our channels on Telegram https://t.me/+WBsf9-C9KPuMZCDT or https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5755/. We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new version! Best, Valerie, on behalf of the WMDE Wikibase Suite team 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 gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine, Dr. Christian Humborg

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[Wikibase] Upcoming Wikidata & Wikibase office hour on Wednesday, 10th April 2024 (18:00 Berlin) in the Wikidata Telegram group
by Valerie Wollinger 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi everyone, Our next Wikidata+Wikibase office hour <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> is scheduled for Wednesday 10th April at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin). As usual, the office hour will happen in the Wikidata Telegram group <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>. *What's the Wikidata+Wikibase office hour?* *The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team at WMDE presents what we have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.* We're looking forward to meeting you there. :-) Best, 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 gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine, Dr. Christian Humborg

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Problem creating new wikibase
by Matthew Ong 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hello, Recently I have been creating test wikibase projects on wikibase-cloud and deleting them when the test was over. I noticed initially on the wikibase-cloud console that I could have a maximum of 6 wikibases created at a time. However today when I tried to create another wikibase from the console I got a 'Creation Failed' message in red. Is this because a person can create a maximum of 6 wikibases total on their account? If so, this was not made clear before...

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