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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Hello, all.
Next week the IFLA Wikidata Working Group will have an open,kick-off
meeting to move the group into the next stage of development. The group is
dedicated to working with the international library community to advance
and support the implementation of Wikibase in libraries, as well as support
work with Wikidata.
Meeting date and time: Thursday, Oct. 8th, at 16:00-17:30 CEST.
Read the current information about the group:
https://www.ifla.org/node/92837
Register for the meeting (required to obtain the meeting link):
https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5882341/IFLA-s-Wikidata-Working-Group-launch
Check out our recently released videos as part of a Wikicite project,
including an introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase from Barbara Fischer and
Sara Hartmann. Subtitles for French, Spanish, and Portegeuse, with Arabic
and Chinese on the way shortly:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV81siTMahbsjakNDIdFwbIvdyNqwRNPo
Happy to respond to questions.
Stacy
Stacy Allison-Cassin
Associate Librarian
York University (Canada)
*(Apologies for cross-posting)*
Hi all,
This is an announcement of a significant change to 3rd party Wikibase
installs that still use lib/WikibaseLib.php as an entry point.
*On September 30*, we will remove the lib/WikibaseLib.php file from the
Wikibase code. Wikis which directly load that file in their
LocalSettings.php will then fail to load (after the 1.36 release of
MediaWiki and Wikibase, if they do not track the master branch).
The file lib/Wikibase.php used to be the entry point of the WikibaseLib
extension. Directly loading this file has not been necessary since the
earliest days of Wikibase – it was loaded automatically by the entry points
of the Client and Repo extensions. Nevertheless, lines similar to the
following found their way into some Wikibase installation instructions:
require_once "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/lib/WikibaseLib.php";
If your LocalSettings.php contains such a line, please remove it. It has
not been needed for ages, and soon it will stop working.
This refactoring is part of a project with a twofold objective: (1)
decouple the Wikibase Client and Repo as much as possible and
establish a long-term
strategy for organising the shared logic
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/adr_0013.html>, and (2) get
both Client and Repo to use the standard extension registration mechanism
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extension_registra…>
to be loaded. The impact of the project is focused on developers who can
now have a clearer view of the code, the modules involved, and their
interactions which makes their lives easier. Also, the maintenance of the
code is now easier. This is the phabricator board
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/4815/> of the project.
If you have any issues or 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
*(Apologies for cross-posting)*
To help us better understand how you work with Wikibase, please help us by
answering a few questions about your Wikibase instance and the tools you
use with it. This survey consists of 7 questions and should take you no
more than 10 minutes to complete.
If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms):
https://forms.gle/9s7Ru3EZrxNxXPtf6
You can also send me a private email with your answers if you don’t want to
use Google Forms (questions below).
We kindly request your participation prior to Thursday, August 27th at
12:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Central European Time.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Cheers,
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*Survey Questions*
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Name of Your Wikibase (optional)
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URL of your Wkibase (optional)
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How did you install your Wikibase instance?*
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Official Docker Images (https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-docker)
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Manual installation (e.g. using git or tarball)
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Not applicable, I am a WBstack user
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Other (please specify)
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What version of MediaWiki is your Wikibase instance running? (Hint: on
your Wikibase, go to /wiki/Special:Version to find this information)*
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1.34.x
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1.33.x
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1.32.x
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1.31.x or older
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Other (please specify)
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Which of these common extensions, tools, and add-ons do you use with
your Wikibase? Check all that apply.
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CirrusSearch / Elasticsearch
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EntitySchema
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OAuth
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Query Service /WDQS
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QuickStatements
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WikibaseImport
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None of the above
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Please list any other extensions, tools, or add-ons that you currently
use in your Wikibase.
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Are there any Wikidata tools that you wish you could use with your own
Wikibase? Please list them below.
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Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de