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? :)
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