Hi all,
I am running a Wikibase instance at https://qawiki.org/ via Docker. The
version I am running is wikibase-bundle:1.36.3-wmde.4. (I considered
updating to the latest version, but it seems daunting.) I've recently
switched to HTTPS hosting, but have not managed to get the Wikibase
config working fully.
I wish to keep HTTP IRIs for the RDF/SPARQL service (otherwise the WDQS
updater skips all entities and/or if I force HTTPS, the query service
still uses HTTP prefixes), so I set in LocalSettings.php:
$wgServer = "http://qawiki.org";
$wgCanonicalServer = $wgServer;
To enable HTTPS elsewhere, I've tried setting:
$wgWBRepoSettings['repoApiBaseUri'] = 'https://qawiki.org/w/api.php';
$wgSecureLogin = true;
$wgCookieSecure = true;
$wgUsePathInfo = true;
$wgResourceLoaderStorageVersion = 2;
Everything is mostly working okay, except some API calls are directed to
HTTP, and fail due to mixed content. For example, visiting:
https://qawiki.org/
and tying "w" in the search bar should provide autocomplete suggestions,
but the call is heading to:
http://qawiki.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=What%20is%20the&…
and is being blocked for mixed content. I don't know why it generates a
HTTP URL, but I guess it relates to $wgServer.
If I set $wgServer to HTTPS, these issues disappear, but then the WDQS
updater no longer works, and if I manually update with
--conceptUri https://qawiki.org/
the WDQS prefixes still use HTTP, and it breaks some application queries.
Any help on how to "force" the front-end to call the API via HTTPS
(ideally without changing $wgServer, which seems to break WDQS) would be
appreciated!
Best,
Aidan
The Wikibase Community User Group has been asked to nominate six candidates out of twelve for the upcoming election to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, as part of a shortlisting process open to all WMF affiliates.
This is a prelude to the actual election (for two seats), where it was felt that requiring the wider community to consider more than ten candidates would be too much.
Unfortunately we only have a day and a bit to do so, as while I registered as the elector for this process as requested by the WMF, I missed the first email indicating that shortlisting would actually take place. Sorry about that. :-/
Given the limited time period (which in any case would have been before our regular monthly meeting), I've reused the voting scheme used for the 2021 primary contact election, with links to the candidate statements and users concerned, as well as information on the shortlisting process:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/2025_Board_Ca…
Essentially, you get to score each candidate separately and the candidates with the highest average score will be nominated. The candidates with the highest number of nominations from all affiliates will stand as candidates for the actual election.
Nominees must be submitted before 23:59 UTC on Monday 28 July (tomorrow), so please have your votes in by 23:00 UTC so that the scores can be tallied. Daylight saving time is in effect in many places, so e.g. members in London have until midnight to vote. (Don't feel you have to wait, though; it took me ~30 minutes to review all candidate statements.)
Best regards,
--
Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry
https://greenreaper.co.uk
Dear Wikibase Community,
We’re happy to announce Wikibase Suite Deploy 5.0.0 as well as Wikibase
Image 5.0.0 today!
The biggest highlight of this release is the switch to the latest version
of MediaWiki: 1.44. Read about MediaWiki 1.44 in their changelog
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.44>.
Also, the Wikibase Suite Call Back
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/deploy/README.m…>
feature announced earlier this month got some updates: It moved to the
Wikibase Image
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/build/wikibase/…>
in order to allow instances not relying on our Deploy package to also
participate. Also, we made the setting of METADATA_CALLBACK mandatory now.
You can of course still opt out of the feature by setting
METADATA_CALLBACK=false In your environment variables (e.g. your .env file
when using Deploy).
Furthermore, we improved the out-of-the-box configuration of the
WikibaseManifest
extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseManifest> which
now reports URLs of adjacent services such as WDQS, WDQS frontend, and
QuickStatements automatically. This is part of our initiative to align with
other products such as Wikibase Cloud as well as working towards our vision
of the Linked Open Data Web.
InstallationNew installation
To install Wikibase Suite Deploy, follow the instructions in our
documentation
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/tree/main/deploy#initial-…>
.
Updating from earlier versions of Wikibase Suite Deploy
For information on how to upgrade from earlier versions of Wikibase Suite
Deploy, check out our upgrading documentation
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/tree/main/deploy#minor-an…>
.
Got feedback or questions?
Join our channels on Telegram https://t.me/wikibasesuite and
https://t.me/+WBsf9-C9KPuMZCDT. You can also check out our Phabricator
board at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5755/.
You can go through our privacy policy
<https://www.wikimedia.de/datenschutz/#dataprivacy> for more information.
Join us to put your pin on the map of Wikibases and build the Linked Open
Data Web together!
Want to stay up to date?
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Wikibase development:
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Best,
Deepesha, on behalf of the WMDE Wikibase Suite team
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Hi everyone,
The next Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> will be held
on Wednesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin) on the Wikidata
Telegram channel <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
*What’s the Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour?*
It’s your chance to:
✅ Hear about what the WMDE development team has been working on and our
plans for the year ahead
✅ Ask questions, discuss topics that matter to you, and share your thoughts
on all things Wikidata and Wikibase
✅ Connect with fellow community members and discover what everyone’s been
up to.
📅 Make sure to mark your calendars!
Cheers,
--
Mohammed S. Abdulai
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: cal.com/masssly.
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exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our
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.
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Dear Wikibase Community,
We’re so excited to announce our Call Back feature! This is completely new
functionality we’re adding to Wikibase Suite Deploy that will help create a
list of Wikibases. The aim of this feature is to support initiatives of
Linked Open Data by improving discoverability of Wikibase instances, which,
in turn, will encourage data re-use.
Highlights
Following are some important highlights of this release:
-
This feature represents an initiative to maintain an index of Wikibases;
it simply uses the URL of each instance. We aim to gather more quantitative
data to learn more about how Wikibase is being used. We want to build a
list that acts as a central hub for data re-use and federation initiatives
between Wikibases, where users can discover other Wikibases easily.
-
Our new Call Back feature duplicates some of the efforts of the
wikibase.world <https://wikibase.world/wiki/Project:Home> project. We
decided to add this feature, not to compete with wikibase.world, but to
offer users a lower-effort alternative that lets even short-term projects
get some visibility and to provide a clear consent process.
-
We will periodically collect some publicly accessible metadata from each
instance. No personal data will be retrieved; we can only access publicly
visible information such as the number of entities in your instance. If
your Wikibase instance requires a login to view data, we won’t be able to
collect statistics.
-
This is an opt-in feature -- i.e., you manually set ‘true’ or ‘false’
depending on your preference -- which allows every user to make a
conscious decision as to whether they’d like to participate.
-
In the near future, we expect to have a proper showcase of all the
Wikibases that have opted in so as to increase discoverability. For now,
however, this data will remain only with Wikimedia Deutschland.
How to get it
If you agree to be a part of this initiative, you can enable the setting
METADATA_CALLBACK=true in your .env file. By default, this setting is left
blank, so you’d need to set it while setting up your Wikibase instance.
You can disable the feature at any time by setting METADATA_CALLBACK=false
in your .env file.
If you’ve already registered and want to be removed from the list, please
send an e-mail to wikibase-suite-support(a)wikimedia.de containing your
hostname to remove your instance from the listing on Wikibase Metadata and
stop periodic analysis.
Installation
To install Wikibase Suite Deploy, follow the instructions in our
documentation
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/tree/main/deploy#initial-…>
.
Updating from earlier versions of Wikibase Suite Deploy
For information on how to upgrade from earlier versions of Wikibase Suite
Deploy, check out our upgrading documentation
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/tree/main/deploy#minor-an…>
.
Got feedback or questions?
Join our channels on Telegram https://t.me/wikibasesuite and
https://t.me/+WBsf9-C9KPuMZCDT. You can also check out our Phabricator
board at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5755/.
You can go through our privacy policy
<https://www.wikimedia.de/datenschutz/#dataprivacy> for more information.
Join us to put your pin on the map of Wikibases and build the Linked Open
Data Web together!
Want to stay up to date?
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/
Best,
Deepesha, on behalf of the WMDE Wikibase Suite team
--
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de
Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia,
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Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine.
Dear Communities,
as announced last week
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.…>,
we have our card-sort activity ready to be shared with you.
Some of us tried it out already. It's fun, intuitive and you can even learn
something.
+ It takes approximately 15 minutes :)
Here is the link to the card sort:
https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/1u7r5xp
Please refer to @Annie Kim <annie.kim(a)wikimedia.de> if you have any
questions, or want to add something to your thoughts.
Thank you so much for your participation!
Best
Valerie Wollinger (She/Her) on behalf of the LOD Ecosystem
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
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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
Vorständin: Franziska Heine