What is Wikibase “Federated Properties” in 2025
I recently wrote a post looking at the history of the Wikibase “Federated Properties” feature. While at Wikimania 2025 the topic of federation came up a few times, particularly given the current discussions ongoing on the Wikidata project chat page including discussions about wikicite, and the recent Wikidata graph split. All the code for the…
Wikicite 2017: ‘extends’-attribute for ref-tag
This presentation was used as part of a lightning talk at Wikicite 2017 promoting the plan by the WMDE community tech team to implement an extends attribute for the ref tag in wikitext. The aim of the presentation was to prompt questions and discussion. This relates to phabricator ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151301