Published December 28, 2025 | Version v1
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The Wikibase Ecosystem in DH and GLAM

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of the Basque Country
  • 2. ROR icon University of Alicante
  • 3. Wikimedia Spain
  • 4. Università di Pisa
  • 5. Wikimedia Switzerland
  • 6. Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa
  • 7. LaOficina Producciones Culturales
  • 8. ROR icon Wikimedia Deutschland
  • 9. ROR icon Universidade do Porto
  • 10. Universidad Isabel I
  • 11. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
  • 12. ROR icon Universität Trier

Description

DARIAH-EU Working Group DHwiki presents this White Paper about Wikibase and the Wikibase Ecosystem as a digest of its permanent activity in providing documentation about MediaWiki-based software solutions to researchers. The output of the Working group is accessible on its Wikibase instance at https://dhwiki.wikibase.cloud. As diverse as the Working Group itself is the target group of this report: DH researchers, GLAM institutions, contributors to the software platforms provided by Wikimedia, and software developers. When starting to engage with Wikidata and Wikibase, we have seen ourselves sometimes lost in a diverse landscape of disperse documentation resources with different scope and aimed at differently skilled readers. With this contribution, we hope to provide a comfortable pathway towards adopting Wikibase in FAIR Linked Data publishing and collaborative data curation workflows.

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Funding

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
DARIAH-EU (2025-26 Theme Call funding)