Thankyou for this work James, the registry has really been needing some
care and attention for many years.
Great name, great hosting choice, and I look forward to being able to help
from the content side moving forward :)
On Sun, 2 Jul 2023, 00:01 James Hare, <jamesmhare(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
In 2018, the Wikibase Registry was started to create a Wikibase of
Wikibases, linking the different Wikibases in existence together in pursuit
of a greater “Wikibase federation."
The Registry was started as a standalone Wikibase on Wikimedia Cloud
Services, and it had fallen behind in content and technical maintenance.
Lack of effective anti-spam measures meant strict editing restrictions,
which did not help.
Since then, a new Wikibase Cloud supported by Wikimedia Germany was
created. Since this service will continue to receive software updates and
generally has more features, I have migrated the contents of Wikibase
Registry to a new wiki at a new URL: <https://wikibase.world>. I
encourage you to sign up and, if you have a Wikibase accessible over the
open internet, to add an entry for it.
Links to Wikibase Registry will continue to work indefinitely. As Wikibase
World is a new wiki with new item and property identifiers, I have created
a static mapping between old and new at <
https://wikibase-registry.wmflabs.org/mapping>gt;. This mapping forms the
basis of the redirect service; try visiting <
https://wikibase-registry.wmflabs.org/wiki/Item:Q5> or <
https://wikibase-registry.wmflabs.org/entity/P19> to see it in action.
The old Wikibase Registry is available as a read-only archive at <
https://wikibase-registry-archive.wmcloud.org/wiki/Main_Page>gt;. It says on
the site that it is going offline today, July 1, but so long as no
vulnerabilities in the old version of MediaWiki being used are being
exploited in its read-only state I can keep it online indefinitely[1].
However, once it goes offline, you should assume it will not return.
However, be assured that final XML and RDF dumps were created and uploaded
to the Internet Archive: <
https://archive.org/details/wikibase-registry-final-2023-06-16>gt;.
Finally, I have created a companion Discourse to go along, at <
https://forum.wikibase.world>gt;. This Discourse can also be used for other
Wikibases that wish to have a place for discussion without setting up their
own forum.
Thank you,
James Hare
[1] The one hard deadline I can think of will be in mid-2025 when the
operating system running the VM reaches end-of-life, at which point I will
be forced to shut it down.
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