Visualizing Wikibase connections, using wikibase.world
Over the past week I have spent some time writing some code to start running a little bot on the wikibase.world project, aimed at expanding the number of wikibases that are collected there, and automating collection of some of the data that can easily be automated. Over the past week, the bot has imported 650…
WBStack setting changes, Federated properties, Wikidata entity mapping & more
During the first 3 months of 2021, some Wikimedia Deutschland engineers, from the Wikidata / Wikibase team, spent some time working on WBStack as part of an effort to explore the WBaaS (Wikibase as a service) topic during the year, as outlined by the development plan. We want to make it easier for non-Wikimedia projects…
Wikibase of Wikibases
The Wikibase registry was one of the outcomes of the first in a series of Federated wikibase workshops organised in partnership with the European research council. The aim of the registry is to act as a central point for details of public Wikibase installs hosted around the web. Data held about the installs currently includes…