Dear community members,
Despite our efforts, and with much progress behind the scenes, we regret
that we won’t be able to release Wikibase Suite 1.38 in December. Although
our engineers have put their hearts into this (and we want to express our
deepest gratitude to them), our team simply reached its limits in December.
We’re very aware that as of the recent Mediawiki 1.39 release, our latest
Docker images are in parity only with a deprecated version of MediaWiki.
This is far from ideal, but we’re steadily catching up to the great work
done by our colleagues at The Wikimedia Foundation.
Given all the progress we’ve made on Wikibase Suite 1.38 in December, we’re
confident that we will be able to proceed with its release in the first
half of January. Attaining parity with MediaWiki is Suite’s top engineering
priority at the moment.
As always, we want to hear your feedback: tell us how you feel and, even
better, please let us know what you’re most looking forward to in our
releases.
Wishing you some rest and good times with those that are special to you
over the coming weeks. We’re looking forward to picking back up with you in
January.
Cheers!
Jon and Valerie
Valerie Wollinger
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Dear Wikibase community.
This year was full of releases and updates from our side, but we have
another one to come here just before the year ends.
In Spring WMDE ran a small series of workshops naming ‘Ecosystem enablement
workshops with the Wikibase stakeholder group’.
The first workshop was held in April with the goal to gather external
developers and set up a productive Wikibase extension development
environment.
The second workshop took place by the end of May, and it was hosted by Adam
Shorland and Jakob Warkotsch. The goal of this workshop was to equip
developers with the initial tools to set up a Wikibase extension, and a
high-level understanding of existing interfaces, policies and examples. A
big part of the workshop consisted of a collective programming exercise
session.
This workshop was recorded and can be seen here:
https://video.rhizome.org/w/nMDGftgpNAWUeDAF3BbA1Q.
The outcomes of this workshop are finally there, and you can have a look at
the code here:
https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-fast-import-proof-of-concept-2022.
Please note that the presented code is a proof of concept code of an
extension adding an import REST API to Wikibase. It is not production-grade
software, and has been created for educational purposes.
Best,
Valerie Wollinger
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Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin
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Dear Community,
Unfortunately, our Wikibase Live Session cannot take place next Thursday.
We are on Christmas holidays and therefore and out of office.
I'm looking forward to seeing your faces again on the 26th of January in
2023.
Best,
Valerie Wollinger
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
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Hi folx!
I’m Jon Amar[1] and I’m wildly excited to be the new WMDE Product Manager
for Wikibase Suite. This is such an extraordinary movement, and Linked Open
Data has a very special role to play in enabling more people to freely
share in the sum of all knowledge. How cool that we all get to be involved!
Wikibase Suite, along with Wikibase Cloud and Wikidata, is one of the three
pieces that make up our work for the Wikibase Ecosystem. Wikibase Suite is
what we call the self-install version of Wikibase, a platform that many of
you already have a rich history with. My colleagues and I have a lot of
learning and listening to do to understand how we can best contribute to
Wikibase, so that we can build a more equitable and sustainable Linked Open
Data ecosystem.
We’re currently working on building up our capacity on the Wikibase Suite
team and getting to parity with the Mediawiki release cycle. As we work on
synthesizing the feedback we’ve received from you so far, I am keen to
continue to connect with you and to listen and learn from you. What gets
you excited about Linked Open Data? What challenges are you facing to make
the most out of this platform? What fruitful areas can we focus on that a
self-install version of Wikibase is particularly well suited for? I’m all
ears, so please reach out to me (jon.amar(a)wikimedia.de). We’ll also be
reaching out over various channels over the next months, and I’d love to
hear from you there as well.
I’m looking forward to getting to know you and finding opportunities to
learn and collaborate together.
Warm regards,
Jon Amar (they/them)
1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Amar_(WMDE)
--
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Hi everyone,
I want to invite you to a new Wikibase Live Session. This Thursday is a new
opportunity for us to share our projects and gather.
*When? Where? How?*
This time, we would like to open the agenda and ask you:
What are you working on around Wikibase?
Are there any things you'd like to share or talk about?
My personal questions to you is:
What are your wishes for the community in 2023?
I would like to gather some ideas on how we can facilitate new get to
gathers for next year and build new spaces for exchange and inspiration.
*Details about how to participate are below:*
Time: 16:00 UTC (17:00 Berlin), 1 hour, Thursday 24th November 2022
Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession
Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.11.24
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.10.27>
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Talk to you soon!
Valerie Wollinger
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de
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Hello all,
As a reminder, the Wikidata and Wikibase office hours will take place on
this Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in
the Wikidata Telegram
group <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
The notes of these discussions will be transferred onwiki
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/archive#2022> as usual.
Best,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Mohammed Sadat Abdulai <mohammed.abdulai(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022, 10:24
Subject: [Wikibase] Upcoming Wikidata & Wikibase office hours on Wednesday,
November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin) in the Wikidata Telegram group
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikibase Community User Group <wikibaseug(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikibase-Cloud mailing list <wikibase-cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*(apologies for cross-posting)*
Hi everyone,
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> will take
place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin) in
the Wikidata Telegram
group <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
*The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the
development team 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.*
I am looking forward to seeing you all.
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata*
Dear Wikibase Community,
There is something we would like to share with you. :- )
We hereby announce that the Wikibase 2022 Release for MediaWiki 1.37 has
been published https://releases.wikimedia.org/wikibase/1.37 and on Docker
Hub <https://hub.docker.com/u/wikibase>.
You can find the links to important documentation related to the release
here:
-
The full release notes
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibas…>
-
Installation instructions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Suite>
(manual installation)
-
Installation instructions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Docker> (Docker)
-
Updating your Wikibase
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/docs/topics/upg…>
(Docker)
This new release brings Wikibase and other components of the Wikibase Suite
to a version compatible with MediaWiki 1.37.
Please note that, for technical reasons, Federated Properties
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_35/php/md_docs_components_repo_fede….>
are disabled and not available in this release. Users who have used
experimental Federated Properties functionality in previous versions will
not see their properties after the update, and might encounter some
unexpected technical glitches. A new experimental Federated Properties
version will be included in the next Wikibase Suite release, compatible
with Mediawiki 1.38.
This release is only compatible with PHP 7.2-7.4. Specifically, this
version will not work in systems running PHP 8 and newer.
Please note that Mediawiki 1.37 is expected to become end-of-life and
receive support from its maintainers with the release of Mediawiki 1.39,
expected to happen in November. We will shortly release another Wikibase
Suite version, compatible with Mediawiki 1.38, and we recommend all users
to watch for our announcement and update their Wikibase installations as
soon as the update is available.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on this mailing list or
leave a comment at Talk:Wikibase/FAQ
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikibase/FAQ>.
Best,
Valerie Wollinger
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
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*(apologies for cross-posting)*
Hi everyone,
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> will take
place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin) in
the Wikidata Telegram
group <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
*The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the
development team 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.*
I am looking forward to seeing you all.
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
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Hi everyone,
We've adjusted the time, and we hope that there will be as many of you able
to join us. For our part, we are more than happy to spend an hour of
exchange and inspiration with you!
If you haven't seen my salutations yet, this is the chance for us to meet!
I'm Valerie, the new Community Communications manager for Wikibase.
Soon we will have our next Wikibase Live Session. More precisely, on
Thursday, October 27th at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin).
We want to open the agenda and ask you:
What are you working on around Wikibase?
Are there any things you'd like to share or talk about?
You're welcome to come and share with the Wikibase community.
*Details about how to participate are below:*
Time: 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin), 1 hour, Thursday 27th October 2022
Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession
Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.10.27
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Talk to you soon!
Valerie Wollinger
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de
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Hi everyone,
We've adjusted the time, and we hope that there will be as many of you able
to join us. For our part, we are more than happy to spend an hour of
exchange and inspiration with you!
If you haven't seen my salutations yet, this is the chance for us to meet!
I'm Valerie, the new Community Communications manager for Wikibase.
Soon we will have our next Wikibase Live Session. More precisely, on
Thursday, October 27th at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin).
We want to open the agenda and ask you:
What are you working on around Wikibase?
Are there any things you'd like to share or talk about?
You're welcome to come and share with the Wikibase community.
*Details about how to participate are below:*
Time: 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin), 1 hour, Thursday 27th October 2022
Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession
Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.10.27
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Talk to you soon!
Valerie Wollinger
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de
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