Recent Wikibase Developments May-July 2022, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group, 22-07-2022

Overview of some developments in the Wikibase ecosystem in the period May-June-July 2022. This update was part of the third meeting of the Netherlands Wikibase Knowledge Group on 22 July 2022.

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Wikibase.cloud

• Wikibase.cloud unboxing experience of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, 22 July 2022 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Wikibase.cloud_Unboxing_Experience,_Netherlands_Wikibase_Knowlegde_Group,_22-07-2022.pdf

Envel’s Yearly Summary

• May-July 2022: https://www.lehir.net/wikibase-yearly-summary-2022/

Wikibase & OpenRefine

• How to upload media files to Wikimedia Commons via OpenRefine: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19eiMeq3XssiPrT9b04E-8XyE-desBEzYNgygLDYKP4o/edit
• How to upload media files to Wikibase via OpenRefine: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/OpenRefine_to_Wikibase:_Data_Upload_Pipeline
• OpenRefine's relation to Wikibase + upcoming development plans for Wikibases July-December 2022: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ND4OOFBOB7a2FQyeEkeKexZaNY-mRcRGiG9GIp2VHEQ/edit#slide=id.p
• Paris to Download on FactGrid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7U4Dci7TAk + https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2333 + https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/FactGrid:Nineteenth_Century#Paris_to_download
• SPARQL query: All the houses and streets of Paris c. 1820: https://tinyurl.com/yf4fvrf7
• More cool FactGrid Wikibase projects, by era: https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/FactGrid:Projects

Wikibase Stakeholders Group

• https://wbstakeholder.group/ + https://notepad.rhizome.org/wikibase-stakeholder-meetings#
• WBSG June 2022 meeting: https://notepad.rhizome.org/wbsg-2022-06-02#
• WBSG July 2022 meeting: https://notepad.rhizome.org/wbsg-2022-07-07#
• Interesting stuff from these meetings:

• WikibaseSync: https://github.com/the-qa-company/WikibaseSync
• The EU Knowledge Graph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBWo-ka9JU + https://linkedopendata.eu/wiki/The_EU_Knowledge_Graph + https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03353225/document
• Wikibase extensions developed by the WBSG: https://wbstakeholder.group/projects/extensions
• Integrating Wikibase into research workflows: https://zenodo.org/record/6807104

• WBSG discussions

• https://loomio.rhizome.org/d/zuTkr7RW/harbouring-learningwikibase-in-the-wbsg + http://learningwikibase.com/
• https://loomio.rhizome.org/d/scJ2ypDq/incorporating-wd-user-scripts-common-js-
• https://loomio.rhizome.org/d/c5PK4SeH/automated-values-request-to-include-it-in-the-wmde-docker + https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312619