Hi everyone,
We regularly get feedback that Wikidata (and Wikibase in general) needs an
API that’s easier to understand and use in order to get more people to
build tools that use data from Wikidata and other Wikibase instances. The
existing action API has several problems. The biggest ones are that it’s
not a widely used standard, not versioned and that it is not very well
suited for Wikibase’ structured data (as opposed to MediaWiki’s usual
wikitext). Over the last weeks we’ve looked at ways to improve the
situation and have come up with a draft for a REST API for Wikibase. We’d
love to have your feedback on it.
*What we want to achieve with it:*
- Provide a more industry-standard and versioned way to access and
manipulate data in Wikibase. This will make it easier for programmers to
get started building tools with and around Wikidata and other Wikibase
instances.
- Provide an API that is more tailored to the Wikibase data model to,
for example, make it possible to get exactly the part of an Entity you need
instead of the whole entity.
- Solve a number of issues in the current API that are easier to solve
with REST.
*A few things to keep in mind:*
- This is only touching the Wikibase-specific API modules, not any of
the others that MediaWiki provides.
- We’ve started with the specification around Items and Properties. Once
we are sure the direction is good, we will look at other parts of the data
model and content like Lexemes and MediaInfo.
- For existing users of the action API: Nothing changes for you for now.
If the feedback is positive, and we go ahead, it’ll take us some time to
actually implement the proposed changes. It’d be very important for us to
hear your feedback now to ensure that the new API meets your needs in the
future.
If you are building tools around and on top of Wikidata/Wikibase, please
have a look at the draft and give us your feedback. You can find all the
information at Wikidata:REST API
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API>. Please leave your
feedback on the talk page there, so we have it all in one place.
Thank you!
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
*(Apologies for cross-posting)*
Hi everyone,
I am happy to announce that a Wikibase-specific consultants directory is
now available on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Consultants_and_Support_Providers
This service provider directory is intended to help people to find
professional help with Wikibase if they need it -- be it technical support
(installation and setup), custom development services, or data modeling
expertise. You are welcome to add yourself if you think you or your company
should be listed on the page.
This service directory is a work in progress as consultants add themselves.
Please note that the inclusion of a service provider on these lists does
not constitute an official endorsement by the Wikibase team.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
Cheers,
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Dear Wikibase community,
You can now use media files from your wiki inside of your own Wikibase!
Announcement post: https://professional.wiki/en/news/wikibase-local-media
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK-zdazdH78
Local media support was developed by Professional.Wiki and funded by Rhizome
<https://rhizome.org/>. Many thanks to Rhizome for enabling development of
this long awaited functionality.
Best
--
Jeroen De Dauw | Technical Director Professional.Wiki
<https://www.Professional.Wiki>
Enterprise wiki consulting and hosting. We are MediaWiki & SMW experts.
Professional.Wiki - Jeroen De Dauw & Karsten Hoffmeyer GbR
Tieckstraße 24-25, 10115 Berlin | +49 (30) 55 87 42 65 | USt-IdNr.
DE322440293
Hi Luis,
This session was not recorded, but we did take notes which you can find
here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_October_2020
We had a few people talk about their data import workflows, and we
discussed some challenges that they encountered.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
Cheers,
-Mohammed
*From: *Luis Enrique Ramos García <luisenriqueramos1977(a)googlemail.com>
*Sent: *Friday, October 2, 2020 4:20 AM
*To: *Wikibase Community User Group <wikibaseug(a)lists.wikimedia.org>;
mohammed.sadat_ext(a)wikimedia.de
*Subject: *Re: [Wikibase] Upcoming Wikibase Live Session—October 1st, 2020
HI Mohammed and other community members,
Please, I would like to know if this session of October 1st, 2020 was
recorded, or if there are templates available in order to know what was
discussed.
Best regards
Luis Ramos
El mar., 29 sept. 2020 a las 14:42, Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (<
mohammed.sadat_ext(a)wikimedia.de>) escribió:
Hi everyone,
I’m excited to announce that our next Wikibase Live Session will be on
Thursday, October 1st at 1600 UTC. We will be discussing the use of batch
data editing tools in Wikibase.
A few people will present their workflow with importing data into Wikibase,
and then we’ll have an open discussion to share our experience, challenges,
and successes.
Details about how to participate are below (*Add to calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NGJmamZsaDR0djhqYTB…>*
):
Time: 16:00 UTC, 1 hour, Thursday 1 October 2020
Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/ntw-foky-kfg
<https://meet.google.com/scu-veqs-azi>
Join by phone:
https://meet.google.com/tel/hch-trhy-trv?pin=4486380681555&hs=1
<https://meet.google.com/tel/scu-veqs-azi?pin=4707199744808&hs=1>
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_September_2020
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_October_2020>
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Hope to talk to you soon!
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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