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 monthhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/2024-03-28 ended with a brief comment about a call for software development proposalshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Open_Call, 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 25https://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 significanthttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Call_Submissions#Submitted_proposals, 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 communityhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Summary_Wikibase_Suite_Survey_-_2023.pdf 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