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Telegram channel for the Wikibase Community recreated
by Andra Waagmeester 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

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

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how to transfer data from Wikibase to WIkidata?
by Mary Dama Mann 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

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?

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Request for feedback about configuration for monolingual text language codes
by Lucas Werkmeister 12 Apr '19

12 Apr '19

Hi everyone, we recently noticed that the way monolingual text language codes are configured on Wikidata might sometimes remove support for them on third-party installations (when a language code is changed to be allowed for labels/descriptions/aliases on Wikidata). If you run your own Wikibase instance and care about the available monolingual text languages, we would appreciate your feedback at T220798 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220798>. Cheers, Lucas -- Lucas Werkmeister Full Stack Developer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de 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 Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Proof of concept for French national entities platform using WikiBase : call for tender
by Benjamin Bober 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Dear all, ABES (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education) and BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) in France are jointly involved in an initiative to build a central national platform for the description of “entities”, including persons, corporate bodies, works, concepts, places… The challenge is to create and maintain centrally and cooperatively information about entities documented in the collections held by libraries and other cultural heritage and research institutions in France. Key objectives also include, but are not limited to : better integrate into the Web of data the reference datasets created by such institutions and facilitate the use of data by any interested community; share efforts and increase possibilities to collectively improve data quality; develop a shared data strategy. In the previous stage, ABES and BnF carried out a feasibility study, including investigation of different solutions to support the overall infrastructure of the platform. The study led to the conclusion that it would be advisable at this stage to carry out a Proof of Concept in order to investigate the possibility of using the software infrastructure of WikiBase to support the FNE. The rationale is based on the observation that a good portion of the principles and functional characteristics of WikiBase and its related tools are likely to respond to the functional requirements that both partners have formulated for FNE. This hypothesis remains to be proved by the Proof of Concept this tender is about, and ABES and BnF are looking for a contractor that will help them test it. The call for tender is open until April 26th. All the documents are available here https://www.marches-publics.gouv.fr/app.php/consultation/422595 . While the responses to the call for tender can be written in English, provided a French version is also supplied alongside, While the responses to the call for tender can be written in English, provided a French version is also provided alongside, mastering French language is not a prerequisite. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Best regards, Ben Benjamin Bober Chef de projet Fichier National d'Entités +33 4 67 54 84 74 227 avenue Professeur Jean-Louis Viala |CS 84308 34193 Montpellier Cedex 5

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Help with Direct Access on custom Wikibase
by Luca Mauri 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hello. I am writing here to ask for help regarding a custom Repository/Client Wikibase installation i made locally. Just as a brief introduction: we already have a productive 15.000 pages custom wiki. Since it is quite data-intensive, we would like to implement Wikibase and migrate the more structured data there. Before going Wikibase on the productive Wiki, I setup a local machine for testing purpose and to gain experience on this extension. So I setup two MediaWiki instances: one with the Repository and Client extensions to act as "database" and the other one with only Client extension, intended to only consume data. I read all the documentation I found and I was able to make everything work, although with some trial-and-error, but I can only read items with Arbitrary Access doing something like `{{#statements:P1|from=Q1}}`. Trying the Direct Access `{{#statements:P1}}` results in an empty string. I think I somehow miss something in Interwiki and/or SiteLink, so please help me here. Am I right that, in order to use Direct Access, I need to add a SiteLink in the Item page pointing to the page in the Client Wiki? I should create a link in the "Other Sites" group from the Repository wiki to the Client one? Am I right here? When I try to add the site to "Other sites" I can only see "wikidatawiki": I assume this is some kind of placeholder I should customize, but I do not know how to do it. I already setup the Interwiki linking between the two sites in the "interwiki" table of the databases. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance for any help you might provide Luca --- Questa email è stata esaminata alla ricerca di virus da AVG. http://www.avg.com

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PAWS and Wikibase
by Laura Hale 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hey, Anyone know of any Wikibase installs where people have installed PAWS ( https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS ) and created notebooks as an alternative way to writing queries on the query engine? Or developed any PAWS notebooks to make managing a Wikibase install easier? Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple

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[Wikibaseug] What are people's priorities when it comes to your own Wikibase installs?
by Laura Hale 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Hi, Wikibase is amazing software, and if some of the tools being developed for Wikidata can be re-purposed for Wikibase, its potential grows even more exponentially. (In the same way that some extensions and the ease of upgrading made Mediawiki a much more desirable CMS than it might have otherwise been.) I was hoping people could share what their projects are, a little bit about the project and its purpose. In this context, I was hoping people might be willing to share what your priorities are as it relates to Wikibase and meeting project goals. In case you don't know, Miguel and I are involved with ParaSports Data. ParaSports Data is a disability and disability sports knowledge base that can serve as a powerful resource for academics, NGOs and other stakeholders in the area of disability rights and disability sports. ParaSport Data was conceived in 2016 as a resource for structured data about disability and disability sport, including facts like dates, performance results, disability population sizes, event information, and classification related data. Using Wikipedia and Wikidata as a model, it seeks to be the largest single knowledgebase about disability and disability sport that allows for stakeholders to search, analyze and re-use this data to draw awareness to disability, disability sports and human rights as an extension of those two things. The purpose of this project is to create a data set of Paralympic, Deaflympic, Special Olympics, other disability sports and general disability information for use by researchers. As it relates to Wikibase, our immediate needs and concerns around these needs probably fall into the following four areas: 1. Upgrading MediaWiki, Wikibase, the Query Engine, and installing Extension:OAuth and Quick Statements. This is not explained anywhere, and the best process as we understand it is outlined at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329028278_Wikibase_Upgrade_Workflow . It makes it scary to do on our own as there is no process, lack of documentation and it is hard to locate others who have successfully done this. 2. Better optimizing the Wikibase software and query engine so it uses fewer server resources. (This partly ties into point three.) 3. Identifying funding sources to pay for our installation as I currently pay out of pocket for all hosting, and this is not a long term solution. 4. Improving bulk data import on Wikibase to prevent fewer errors, and need to merge items after the fact. This is because either the Wikibase software or the way we bulk import only exact matches item names. If in bulk creating items, an item description is different than the existing one, it creates a new item. Statements are then added to the lowest Q number when adding statements based on an item name match. What are your priorities as it comes to your own installations? :) -- twitter: purplepopple

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[Wikibaseug] Using Research Gate to promote our wikibase install
by Laura Hale 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hi, This was touched on the Telegram group for a quick period of time but as those conversations can quickly disappear, I thought I would bring it up here. :) That way it can be easier to find. While doing a PostDoc at the University of Salamanca, my supervisor suggested that I create a project on Research Gate to better promote ParaSports Data. I had done this but never really updated it until this past week as sometimes it just seems like another thing to do when I would rather be doing data. :) But if the goal is to encourage academic re-use of the project, my supervisor argued it was worth the time and effort to be on the site (despite the shortcomings expounded elsewhere about the commercialization aspect of academic work). It can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/project/ParaSports-Data . Any feedback on the project would be appreciated, and I have tried to make it more about creating a disability knowledge base, and about the software that powers it. I know one or two other people mentioned on Telegram having used Research Gate, and it would be great to hear more about their experiences. :) Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple

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[Wikibaseug] Mediawiki and Wikibase upgrade
by Laura Hale 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

Hi, Anyone have any advice regarding upgrading Wikibase? We want to upgrade the install at https://para-sports.es/ but there are a bunch of technical hurdles that are difficult to get past. These include: 1. Upgrading Mediawiki to the latest version in order to be able to upgrade Wikibase. This needs to be done without changing the local customization settings and while trying to maintain a potential Mediawiki farm, as we want to be able to have a local image thing like Commons that can be pulled into Wikibase where Commons would be. 2. Upgrading extensions to be current with new version of Mediawiki. 3. Upgrading Wikibase after upgrading Mediawiki. Our database for Wikibase is over 100,000 items, We don't want to screw this up. 4. Upgrading the query engine after this, and being able to better localize this as the current examples are from Wikidata, and we can't seem to get rid of the Wikidata logo from the Query engine. 5. Installing the OAuth extension. This is required for Quick statements extension. 6. Installing QuickStatements. Has anyone else who has updated Wikibase dealt with these issues? Is there any advice? Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple

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[Wikibaseug] Question about Research Gate as it pertains to promoting data on wikibase installs
by Laura Hale 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

Is anyone else using Research Gate as a way to get researchers interested in the data available on their Wikibase installs? I had a research project there, but was encouraged by my PostDoc supervisor to be more proactive in using the space and similar spaces to share updates on projects, request assistance from other academics, share some datasets culled from the project, share draft papers using the data that might not be ready for prime time and ask academics in my discipline on the site how the project can assist them in their work. Curious if others had been directed in a similar type of direction. Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple

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