Cloudflare workers for wikibase.cloud uptime & status
Recently I wanted to create a live status page for wikibase.cloud, that also tracking the status of the various services and response times, so that people in the Telegram group might be able to try and correlate their experiences (possibly slow behaviour) with what was seen by others in other locations on other sites, without…
Wikibase Phrase Entity, Viewing
In my previous post, we got to the point of being able to create a new Wikibase Entity, it is stored in the MediaWiki database as a page, however we can’t actually view it via any interface currently. In this post, we will work through another set of code changes, tackling each issue as we…
Wikibase Phrase Entity, Creation
Finally, after a long lead up of discussing what an entity is, looking at some examples of entity extensions, and one extension that chose not to make use of the Wikibase Entity system & EntityDocument. What does it take to create a new type of data entity within Wikibase that implements the EntityDocument interface and…
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 Repository development environment (mwcli)
Back in 2022, while working at Wikimedia Germany, I ran two sessions with people from the Wikibase Stakeholder Group, focused on Ecosystem Enablement. These sessions were video recorded and documented in quite a lot of detail, but following through with the videos would probably lead to a bit of a drawn out experience, as they…
Lexeme and MediaInfo, implementing EntityDocument
As we continue the journey, looking at Entity and EntityDocument within Wikibase, another useful thing to look at are the third and fourth widely used (at least within the Wikimedia space) entity types for Wikibase. Both of these entity types make use of the EntityDocument, with none of the old assumptions baked into the Entity…
Wikibase, from Entity to EntityDocument
The term document has already come up a few times while discussing what a Wikibase entity is, and if that should change (be that in name only, code or structures), including in my first post of this series. Looking at the very first definition of entity in the duck duck go search that I performed…
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…
Creating properties with statements using Wikidata Integrator
Wikidata Integrator is a Python library that simplifies data integration from Wikidata (and other Wikibases). It is written in Python, is focused on Wikibase concepts (as opposed to some libraries which are MediaWiki focused) and has a user-friendly interface. I’m currently working on a demo Wikibase and decided to bring all of the data into…
Wikibase and reconciliation
Over the years I have created a few little side projects, as well as working on other folks’ Wikibases, and of course Wikidata. And the one thing that I still wish would work better out of the box is reconciliation. What is reconciliation In the context of Wikibase, reconciliation refers to the process of matching…