KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group, 22-07-2022

Nederlands: Ervaringen en eerste indrukken van de KB, nationale bibliotheek van Nederland met het unboxen, opzetten, configureren en tweaken van hun Wikibase.cloud testinstantie. Presentatie tijdens de 3e bijeenkomst van de Nederlandse Wikibase Kennisgroep op 22 juli 2022.

English: Experiences and first impressions of the KB, national library of the Netherlands with unboxing, setting up, configuring and tweaking their Wikibase.cloud test instance. Presentation during the 3rd meeting of the Dutch Wikibase Knowledge Group on 22 July 2022.

For a full transcript, see https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page#Our_Wikibase.cloud_unboxing_experience_and_first_findings

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Setting up our Wikibase.cloud test instance

• Wikibase.cloud homepage: https://www.wikibase.cloud
• Create account: https://www.wikibase.cloud/create-account + Help: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Wikibase.cloud/Account
• Application For Early Access To Our Private Beta Of Wikibase.Cloud (invite code): https://lime.wikimedia.de/index.php/717538
• Login to Wikibase.cloud dashboard: https://www.wikibase.cloud/login
• Dashboard: https://www.wikibase.cloud/dashboard
• KB Wikibase.cloud test instance homepage: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
• KB Wikibase.cloud instance settings: https://www.wikibase.cloud/wikis/manage/199 + Help: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Wikibase.cloud/Wikis
• Create new Wikibase.cloud instance: https://www.wikibase.cloud/wikis/create
• Implement a larger limit for Wikis per user: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311121

Setting up basic content (Ps and Qs) via the GUI

• KB Wikibase.cloud test instance homepage: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
• Create user account on this Wikibase: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Main+Page
• Users of this Wiki + privileges: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special:ListUsers
• Date of birth (EDTF) property: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Property:P61
• Theun de Vries on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2143934
• Theun de Vries on Wikibase: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q29
• Allow custom ordering of properties in wikibase.cloud instances: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310899
• Clustering of external ID properties in Qitems in Wikibase.cloud (as in Wikidata): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898
• Custum sorting of properties in Wikibase: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties
• Custum sorting of properties in Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties + Manual: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Wikibase-SortedProperties
• Purge cache of pages: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special:Purge

SPARQL and REST APIs

• SPARQL examples on this Wikibase: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:SPARQL/examples
• <sparql tryit="1">: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/w/index.php?title=Project:SPARQL/examples&action=submit
• Federated query in Wikibase and Wikidata, mind the prefixes: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:SPARQL/examples#Federated_querying:_mixing_data_from_this_Wikibase_with_data_from_Wikidata
• Theun de Vries on Wikibase: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q29
• Theun de Vries Wikibase item in JSON and XML: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q29&format=json + https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q29&format=xml
• Or equivalently: https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q29.json + https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q29.ttl + https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q29.php
• Wikibase REST API interaction/library in Python: https://github.com/samuelmeuli/wikibase-api + Documentation: https://wikibase-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/installation_and_usage.html
• Code examples on how to use this Python library: https://github.com/KBNLresearch/wikibase-api/tree/master/examples-kb + https://github.com/kbnlresearch/wikibase-api/blob/master/examples-kb/wikibase-api.py

3 problems we encounterd, yet unsolved

• Wikibase property "is a unique exmple of": https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Property:P3
• Useless red error pops up when non confirmed user tries to add a URL on wbcloud: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310419 + Cannot add url values as an anonymous or unconfirmed user: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86453 + Disable captcha in entity namespaces until T87854 is fixed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310421
• Olaf Janssen's user scripts + custom CSS on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:OlafJanssen/common.js + https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:OlafJanssen/common.css
• Allow creation of common.js and common.css on wikibase.cloud instances for normal users: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310787
• Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase: https://www.wikibase.consulting/fast-bulk-import-into-wikibase/

Where to get help?

1. Wikibase.cloud issues on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikibase.cloud/
2. Wikibase.cloud updates: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase/Wikibase.cloud
3. Wikibase.cloud user documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Wikibase.cloud
4. Telegram for quick help: https://t.me/joinchat/FgqAnxNQYOeAKmyZTIId9g
5. Wikibase-cloud mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikibase-cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/