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This is the second installment of my tech lead digest digest with my tech lead hat on for the Wikidata Wikibase team.

This is a digest of my internal digest emails. These contain lots of links to reading, podcasts and general goings on that could be useful to a wider audience.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Wikidata & Wikibase

• Federated Properties, Mismatch finder & WBaaS maintenance teams have spun up from the Campsite
• The “experimental” patch for Github Dependabot -> Gerrit was merged
• ADR 11 rollout it at 26% (slow and steady)
• The wikibase-docker repository has been flagged as not in use / legacy and will soon be archived
•  wikibase-containers phabricator tickets are being closed or moved to the release strategy phabricator tag
• There was no strong team consensus on ADR 18, and thus we will likely not maintain backward compatibility with MW 1.36 on master of Wikibase for now
• Team Site changes:
  • Team list of repositories now includes the languages, tooling used, creation and last touched dates.
  • The purtle library (for RDF output) was also added to the list of repositories that we own
  • Team tech vision has been updated (using markmap JS)
  • An auto collected list of team ADRS has been added.
  • A documentation page / portal has been added

At some point last year I started sending a weekly internal digest to the Wikidata Wikibase team with my tech lead hat on.

The emails are internal only but contain lots of links to reading, podcasts and general goings on that could be useful to everyone.

So here is my first Wikidata Wikibase tech lead digest digest!

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Wikidata & Wikibase

• A collection of Wikibase specific logstash dashboards were created
• We moves our secondary CI from Travis to Github Actions (ADR)
• We archived WikibaseCodesniffer, choosing to use the upstream mediawiki-codesniffer
• Deployment of the Wikidata Query Service UI was moved to microsites
• wdwb-tech phabricator boards were recreated, funneling towards a prioritized tech backlog.
• We created a team site, which contains a list of all code repositories that we own and interact with as a core part of Wikidata / Wikibase. (git repo)
• Browser tests came up as a hot topic. A deep dive and some central analysis occurred seemingly correlation failures with “memory compaction” on VMs. This is out of our control, so we increased timeouts in some key areas.