It's that time again - the May meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group! This is your chance to present what you've been doing recently, or ask questions of other members, as well as find out what's going on in Wikibase.
If you're new to the community, you can get to know other members of the community face-to-face, without leaving the comfort of your home or office. (And if you have to, Jitsi has apps for mobile devices, too.)
As usual, we will be meeting online at https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession at 15:00 UTC (16:00 London, 17:00 Berlin), which is just under two hours from now.
The meeting notes are at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2024_05_30 - feel free to add to the agenda if you have anything else you wish to present or discuss.
Hope to see you there,
--
Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry - Wikibase Community User Group
https://greenreaper.co.uk - https://furry.wikibase.cloud
Dear Wikibase Cloud users,
we have exciting news to share with you!
You mentioned this wish for a longer time already, and I’m pleased to
announce that we came up with something that might solve your need for *greater
transparency* on *current incidents* that might impact your activities on
your Wikibase.
*How so?*
Wikibase Cloud is in its baby steps and still in open beta. We work towards
becoming more stable and reliable, but we do experience hick-ups along the
way.
These hick-ups are often experienced and detected through you or by us.
We wanted to build a *tool that reflects these hick-ups* in* real time* so
that you have a page that you can check whenever you experience unusual
patterns or reactions.
This is why we set up a dedicated status updates page, see
https://wmde.github.io/wikibase-cloud-status/.
This *incident tracker* will most importantly inform you about the
occasions in which you are directly impacted. It will also tell you about
situations that don’t necessarily impact you, but let you learn more about
how the software works and reacts.
We haven’t mentioned that in a while, but we’d like to remind everyone that
we’re working hard towards meeting your needs and offering an
infrastructure that supports you in your endeavors.
Apart from that, we would like to thank you. For being with us, for
spreading the word and for using Wikibase Cloud and thereby working towards
a vision in which we all contribute to the sum of all knowledge.
Have a wonderful rest of the week and see you soon!
Valerie on behalf of Wikibase Cloud
Valerie Wollinger (She/Her)
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de
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Hey everyone,
our research team would like to conduct a 60-minute interview with you in
the coming weeks (May 13–24) to improve the experience for new users.
You don’t need to prepare anything, and you will be compensated for your
time.
If you are interested, please fill out the following form:
https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/WBC-Usability-Research.
Thanks so much for your help 🙌
Valerie Wollinger (She/Her)
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de
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It's that time again: the often-monthly meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group takes place today at 15:00 UTC (so 16:00 for those of us in the UK, 17:00 in CEST, or 11:00 US EDT): https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession
Last month<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/2024…> ended with a brief comment about a call for software development proposals<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Open_Ca…>, kicking off a flurry of behind-the-scenes work by members in collaboration with the Wikibase Stakeholder Group; cumulating in two proposals outlined on today's agenda, for form-filling entity creation and conversion of the existing OpenRefine reconciliation service into an extension: WBUG 2024 04 25<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2024_04_25>
Due to the time pressure, these proposals were submitted by the group's WMF contacts - Lozana and myself - prior to this meeting, though not before we were satisfied with them. But they're still only the first step, so we'd like to hear your thoughts today, too!
Competition is significant<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Call_Su…>, and there's no guarantee that either proposal will be funded, let alone both. But if they are, we'll need to have further discussions about e.g. how to handle the funds involved - and since we'd have to move reasonably quickly to get things done by the end of the year, it wouldn't hurt to think a bit about that in advance, too.
Organizational matters aside, results from a WMDE survey of the Wikibase community<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Summary_Wikibase_Suite_Survey_-_202…> late last year have been released, and we can discuss them, as well as any projects or issues that you need help or advice with or want to share.
Hope to see you there,
--
Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry - WBUG / WikiFur.com
Dear Wikibase Community,
We’re thrilled to announce the release of WMDE.20
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/releases/tag/wmde.20>,
our security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.41.1. WMDE.18 and WMDE.19,
our security releases compatible with MediaWiki 1.40.3 and 1.39.7
respectively, will be coming shortly.
Changes in short:
-
MediaWiki 1.41.1 release announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>
-
WDQS now checks for allowlist.txt instead of whitelist.txt for allowed
SPARQL hosts; please see T355893
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355893> and the relevant Pull Request
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/pull/625> for details.
Previous changes in the 1.41-based releases:
-
MediaWiki 1.41 release announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>
Please also note that, as always, the file LocalSettings.php is
world-readable. Viewing it from within the container reveals the database
password and secret key.
Upgrading your Wikibase
Please note that starting with the Wikibase 1.39 release, the Wikibase
extension must be enabled in MediaWiki using the Extension Registration
mechanism. If you have been providing your own MediaWiki configuration file
(LocalSettings.php) for your Wikibase container, make sure to check these
upgrade instructions
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/f2555b07494c9df691cd…>
.
Are you looking for documentation?
Our Wikibase documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase> is the
way to go for our installation instructions and FAQ. For Wikibase 1.41
developer documentation, take a look at
https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_41/
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_41/php/> .
Want to know what’s new?
Sign up for our mailing list to follow and participate in discussions about
Wikibase development:
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Got feedback or questions?
Join our channels on Telegram https://t.me/+WBsf9-C9KPuMZCDT or
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5755/.
We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new version!
Best,
Valerie, on behalf of the WMDE Wikibase Suite team
Valerie Wollinger (She/Her)
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de
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Hi everyone,
Our next Wikidata+Wikibase office hour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> is scheduled
for Wednesday 10th April at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin). As usual, the office
hour will happen in the Wikidata Telegram group
<https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
*What's the Wikidata+Wikibase office hour?*
*The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the
development team at WMDE 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.*
We're looking forward to meeting you there. :-)
Best,
Valerie Wollinger (She/Her)
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de
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Hi everyone,
Our next Wikidata+Wikibase office hour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> is scheduled
for Wednesday 10th April at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin). As usual, the office
hour will happen in the Wikidata Telegram group
<https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
*What's the Wikidata+Wikibase office hour?*
*The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the
development team at WMDE 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.*
Be sure to mark the date in 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: calendly.com/masssly.
A lot is happening around Wikidata - Keep up to date!
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.
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Dr. Christian Humborg
Dear Community,
We are happy to announce the next major version of Wikibase Suite, WMDE.17
based on MediaWiki 1.41.0.
This is a major release including the following notable changes:
-
MediaWiki switched to the “Vector 2022” skin by default.
-
MariaDB switched from 10.9 to 10.11
<https://mariadb.com/kb/en/changes-improvements-in-mariadb-1011/> for a
long term support version.
-
PHP switched from 8.1 to 8.2 <https://www.php.net/releases/8.2/en.php>.
-
WDQS Java switched from OpenJDK to eclipse-temurin JRE, but stays on
java 8.
-
WDQS base image switched from alpine to debian bookworm.
-
WDQS service now uses the “blazegraph” user instead of uid 666.
To review the complete set of components used to build this release, check
out our versions.env file
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/wmde.17/variables.env>
.
Find more information about the MediaWiki 1.41 release here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41>.
Are you looking for documentation?
Our Wikibase documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase> is the
way to go for our installation instructions and FAQ. For Wikibase 1.41
developer documentation, take a look at
https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_41.
Want to know what’s new?
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/
Got feedback or questions?
Join our channels on Telegram https://t.me/+WBsf9-C9KPuMZCDT or
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5755/.
We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new version!
Best,
Valerie, on behalf of the WMDE Wikibase Suite team
Valerie Wollinger (She/Her)
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
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
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Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
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23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
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Vorstände: Franziska Heine, Dr. Christian Humborg