Hello all,
I'm happy to announce that we started preparing our next Wikidata community
online event: the *Data Reuse Days 2025
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025>*.
The event will be focusing on *how people and organizations use Wikidata's
data to build interesting applications and tools*. It aims to bring
together data reusers and editors to learn from each other and discover
cool Wikidata-powered applications. We will also cover technical aspects of
Wikidata and share research and ideas for the future of reusing Wikidata’s
data.
The event is taking place *online*, we will have sessions taking place
during *periods of 2 hours through 8 days: from February 18 to 27, 2025*.
You will be able to join sessions live, or to watch the replay later on.
You will find the schedule below on this page. The sessions take place in
English, and are open to everyone interested in the topic of data reuse.
We are welcoming proposals from Wikidata editors and reusers who want to
showcase their applications or facilitate discussions! You can *propose
sessions on the talk page until January 12th
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event_talk:Data_Reuse_Days_2025>*. We will
then select some of them and add them to the schedule. We are especially
welcoming demos of tools or applications using Wikidata's data, discussions
between editors and reusers, and technical presentations.
While waiting for the event to take place, you can also rewatch some
sessions from our last edition in 2022
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm>.
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write on the talk
page or to reach out to me directly.
Best,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Hello,
This is a breaking change announcement for the options parameter of the
wbformatvalue API. Based on recent usage data, we don’t expect most API
users to be affected by this change.
The wbformatvalue API has an options parameter, where various formatting
options can be specified in a JSON object. Historically, Wikibase has
allowed any option to be set to any (JSON) value here, and because the
formatter implementations often did not validate the options, it was
possible to produce various (mostly harmless) crashes in Wikibase by
setting e.g. a string-valued option to an integer. Also, even when the
options were being used correctly, most of them were of questionable
usefulness, and tracking shows
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/h-hXQTtIz/wikibase-api-wbformatvalue?orgId=…>
that only very few options were actually used in practice.
To simplify the API, we are changing it so that only four options are
allowed in the JSON: lang, applyRounding, applyUnit, and showcalendar.These
allowed options and their possible values are documented in the API
documentation. Currently, invalid values for these options are already
rejected; as of 2024-11-27, any option name other than these four will also
be rejected, regardless of value. According to the tracking mentioned
above, no API request has mentioned any of the other options in the past
six months, so we do not expect that anyone will actually have to update
their code to stop sending other options.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment on T323778
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323778>.
--
*Danny Benjafield*
Community Communications Manager
Wikidata Integrations Team
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de
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