Hi everyone.
Not sure it is the correct place to discuss that, but I am working on the
installation of Wikibase alongside SemanticMediaWiki in the same Mediawiki
instance.
(not sure the 'Semantic' is useful for the rest of that mail, but anyway...)
To allow human-readable links from (Semantic)MediaWiki pages to Wikibase
pages, I plan to use the DisplayTitle extension.
I would need Wikibase to have an additional feature when saving the
(english?) label of a page: also save it as the 'displaytitle' of that page
in the 'page_props' table.
The question is: how can I add this hook in Wikibase saving process?
Any help is welcome.
Dear Wikibase colleagues.
I have circulated these notes a little during WikidataCon already:
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikibase-Extensions-Federation>
It is a list of extensions or new features that Rhizome needs to go
into full production. We're interested in helping produce these
extensions and will have some funding available in 2020. Please have a
look into the Etherpad and leave a note if these features would meet
your needs as well, and if you have plans to implement something
yourself.
My goal is to have extensions useful for most cases of running
independent Wikibase instances in the new "ecosystem" approach WMDE has
announced, and discuss how they can be made a reality.
Yours,
Dragan
--
Dragan Espenschied
Preservation Director
Rhizome <http://rhizome.org/> at the New Museum
Hi everyone :)
Over the past years Wikidata and Wikibase have been growing a lot.
That means a lot more to do for a product manager - more than I can
handle by now. So we've decided to open a new position. We'll have a
second product manager who will work closely with me and who will
focus on the Wikibase Ecosystem while I concentrate on Wikidata
itself. They will work with you all, partners and the development team
on making sure that we built the right things and that the Wikibase
Ecosystem is thriving.
You can find the details in the job ad here:
https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/5246357?jobDbPVId=14376022&…
If you're excited about working on making the Wikibase Ecosystem
flourish I'd love to see you apply. You know someone else who would be
a good fit for the position? Please send them the job ad.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out to me.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello,
I am interested in making Wikibase available as a package for Debian OS.
This would allow easy installation and maintenance of Wikibase instances
for any Debian user. Mediawiki, for example, is already available as a
Debian package, and is reported to be installed at least on 700 Debian
machines [1].
However, having software in Debian requires some commitment from its
developers ("upstream"). Debian is released once in two years, with
security support for some three years. Once released with Debian,
versions of packages normally do not change (Debian 9, released in 2017,
has Mediawiki v1.27.7). Nevertheless, security flaws have to be patched,
best if in coordination with the upstream.
I am wondering whether the developers of Wikibase would be interested in
having Wikibase in Debian? If so, would they be willing to provide
security support for versions of Wikibase released with Debian?
Thanks,
Andrius
[1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=mediawiki
Hi everyone :)
We do want to allow more and more people to run their own Wikibase
instance. As part of that we want to allow people to deeply connect
these Wikibase instances among each other and especially with
Wikidata. We also want to allow them to benefit from work done in
other Wikibase instances and especially Wikidata, like the definition
and refining of properties. As people talk and think about this it is
often referred to as Federation. However there is the problem that we
don't talk about the same thing when we say Federation but instead
about a multitude of related features. In order to move the
development forward we need to sort out what people actually want and
need to make sure we're actually developing something useful. I opened
a page for collecting your input here:
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Dear Ms.,
I thank you for your answer. I added my comments on the Meta talk page. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata/Strategy/2019#Comments_by_Csi….
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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De : Lydia Pintscher <Lydia.Pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
Date : 2019/08/27 19:41 (GMT+01:00)
À : "Houcemeddine A. Turki" <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr>
Cc : "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikibase Community User Group <wikibaseug(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Objet : Re: RE : [Wikidata] Vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase are published
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 7:56 PM Houcemeddine A. Turki
<turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr> wrote:
> Dear Ms.,
> I thank you for your efforts. I tried to reach you during Wikimania 2019. I met you. But, we could not talk as we had other meetings to attend. I managed to talk with you about enhancing Wikidata as a platform. However, when I saw the report, I thought that it will excellent if I can add my output to the strategy paper about the topic. I ask if this is possible.
Hi Houcemeddine :)
Yes definitely. Please add your thoughts to the talk page.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 7:56 PM Houcemeddine A. Turki
<turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr> wrote:
> Dear Ms.,
> I thank you for your efforts. I tried to reach you during Wikimania 2019. I met you. But, we could not talk as we had other meetings to attend. I managed to talk with you about enhancing Wikidata as a platform. However, when I saw the report, I thought that it will excellent if I can add my output to the strategy paper about the topic. I ask if this is possible.
Hi Houcemeddine :)
Yes definitely. Please add your thoughts to the talk page.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi everyone :)
More than 7 years ago we started the development of Wikidata. We
started out with the main goal of building a central data store for
Wikipedia. Very quickly we expanded to also covering the other
Wikimedia projects. Then came the interest from people outside
Wikimedia to use Wikidata’s data to build their own apps, websites,
visualisations and more. And last year we witnessed a significant
interest in Wikibase, the software behind Wikidata. This means our
work has expanded very significantly from what we started out with. We
noticed that more and more people need clarity and certainty about
where Wikidata and Wikibase are going. Because of this WMDE and WMF
started discussing this more deeply and wrote down a lot of the things
we have been talking about in the Wikidata and Wikibase communities
over the last years.
The result of these conversations include one product vision paper and
three product strategy papers that we are publishing today:
* Vision: This paper gives a high-level overview of where we’d like to
see Wikidata and Wikibase evolve and grow, based on the work of the
past 7 years and many conversations with community members, movement
partners, and other stakeholders.
* Wikidata for Wikimedia projects: This paper dives deeper into how we
see Wikidata developing in the context of the Wikimedia projects and
how it can better support the projects.
* Wikidata as a platform: This paper explores the value of Wikidata as
a source of data for others outside Wikimedia to build upon.
* Wikibase Ecosystem: This paper goes deeper into the idea of the
Wikibase Ecosystem, a network of Wikibase instances which share data
and other capacities.
I would love for you to read these papers now and give your feedback.
We are collecting feedback until the end of October and will then
integrate it as appropriate into a second iteration of the papers.
The papers are published at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Strategy/2019. Please leave
your feedback and questions on the associated talk page.
I am looking forward to reading your input.
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
The telegram channel where Wikibase was discussed disappeared. A new
channel has been created and can be (re)joined:
https://t.me/joinchat/CBxhGlgbH_e9ktr4eIBosA
Unfortunately, with this disappearance, the archives have also disappeared.
With this email I hope to reach as many participants as possible, but if
you are aware of someone who actively participated, but might not follow
this mailing list, please forward the invite above
Kind regards,
Andra Waagmeester
I am preparing a batch of data to upload to wikibase via quickstatements,
and am wondering: is it possible to transfer this data from wikibase to
wikidata if I want to in the future?