EntitySchema, and the entity flip-flop
The EntitySchema extension, previously called WikibaseSchema, has had an interesting life since its initial creation back in early 2019. The main point this story is intended to highlight is that EntitySchema started off its planned life as an Entity within a Wikibase. As the development team started work on an initial version, it flipped away…
Wikibase: What is an entity?
I left the Wikidata and Wikibase teams roughly a year ago, and at the time there were some long and deep discussions going on inside the team trying to define what an entity was, and what should and should not be an entity. At the recent Hackathon in Tallinn, this topic resurfaced to me, as…