Wikibase Yearly Summary 2020

by Envel Le Hir — January 1, 2020 — Wikibase

This timeline tracks what happened around Wikibase in 2020 and is frequently updated. Items are listed using the following categories:

Please contact me if something is missing!

January

2020-01-22 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].
2020-01-22 Samantha Alipio becomes Product Manager for Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
2020-01-22 2020 development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase by Wikimedia Deutschland.
2020-01-23 Change: Wikibase installations: new term store enabled.
2020-01-25 WBStack Infrastructure, by Addshore.

2020-02-01 Wikibase Ecosystem, taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) at FOSDEM [slides, video].
2020-02-05 Change: Action API parameter validation.
2020-02-06 ADR-7: Use vuex-smart-modules in Data Bridge.
2020-02-17 Wikidata is just a matter of facts, by Andra Waagmeester.
2020-02-17 ADR-8: Format Bridge references via API.
2020-02-20 First online meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group [notes].

2020-04-01 → 2020-04-03 — EMWCon Spring 2020
- Wikibase for Smart Cities, by Houcemeddine Turki, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Mohamed Ben Aouicha [slides, video].
- Wikibase, Docker & WBStack, by Adam Shorland [video].
2020-04-07 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].
2020-04-07 ADR-10: Do not add source information to Property IDs for the Federated Properties MVP.
2020-04-07 [es] First steps with Wikibase, by BVMC.
2020-04-16 Change: Blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model.
2020-04-19 WBStack 2020 Update 1, by Addshore.
2020-04-21 Mohammed Sadat becomes Community Communications Manager for Wikidata and Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
2020-04-23 ADR-11: declare strict_types Rollout.

2020-05-05 Wikidata Course at TAU, Part 2/4: Wikibase & Lexemes, by Shani Evenstein with Lydia Pintscher (WMDE).
2020-05-17 WBStack 2020 Update 2, by Addshore.
2020-05-19 Dan Shick becomes Technical Writer for Wikibase/Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland.
2020-05-20 Building an OpenRefine Reconciliation Endpoint for a Wikibase project: Lessons Learned, by Jeff Mixter and Bruce Washburn (OCLC).
2020-05-30 [fr] Wikibase exploration, huge technical experience feedback on Wikibase, related to FNE proof of concept.

2020-06-10 Cataloguing Practices in the Age of Linked Open Data: Wikidata and Wikibase for Film Archives, by Adelheid Heftberger and Paul Duchesne (FIAF).
2020-06-15 ADR-12: PSR-4 and maintenance scripts [T172368].
2020-06-18 Experimentations with Wikidata/Wikibase, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC).
2020-06-26 ADR-13: Register shared features in Repo and Client.

2020-08-05 ADR-14: Make Wikibase.git a monorepo.
2020-08-06 Third online meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group [notes, video].
2020-08-17 Change: New datatype fields in Lexeme JSON output.
2020-08-19 Semantic MediaWiki vs Wikibase vs Cargo, by Jeroen De Dauw (Professional.Wiki).

2020-09-03 — SSHOC Online Information Sessions: Open-Source Vocabulary Hosting and Management Platforms — Introduction to Wikibase Vocabulary Platform
- Introduction to Wikibase, by Georgina Burnett and Jens Ohlig (WMDE) [slides].
- Use case: The German National Library’s work on the Integrated Authority File, by Barbara Fischer and Sarah Hartmann (DNB) [slides].
2020-09-03 Fourth online meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group [notes].
2020-09-03 Semantic Wikibase Released, by Jeroen De Dauw (Professional.Wiki) [repository].
2020-09-16 Change: lib/WikibaseLib.php is no longer an entry point to the Lib extension.
2020-09-17 Wikidata, Wikibase and the library linked data ecosystem: an OCLC Research Library Partnership discussion, by Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC).
2020-09-24 An Introduction to Wikibase and Wikidata with Barbara Fischer and Sarah Hartmann, part of the Wikicite Discussion Series made by IFLA Wikidata Working Group.

2020-10-01 Fifth online meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group [notes].
2020-10-05 Local Media Support for Wikibase, by Jeroen De Dauw (Professional.Wiki) [video, repository, T258932].
2020-10-06 Jens Ohlig, Software Communication Strategist, announces leaving Wikimedia Deutschland.
2020-10-07 Wikibase Consultants and Support Providers (see also MediaWiki Professional development and consulting).
2020-10-08 IFLA Wikidata Working Group kick-off meeting.
2020-10-15 — SEMIC 2020 (full programme) — Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata [video]
- Encoding, sharing and promoting Cohesion Policy projects as Linked Data with Wikibase, by Francesco Foglia (UNIRC), Max De Wilde (European Commission DG CNECT).
- Decentralising the management of national authority files through Wikidata, by Anila Angjeli (BnF), Benjamin Bober (ABES), Barbara Fischer (DNB), Joel Thill (National Archives of Luxembourg), Christel Kayser (BnL).
2020-10-25 [it] Wikibase, starting from scratch, by Luca Mauri at itWikiCon 2020 [slides, notes].
2020-10-27 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland [notes].
2020-10-28 An informal conversation about the emerging Wikibase community during 24-hours meetup of Wikidata’s Eighth Birthday, by Mohammed Sadat and Jens Ohlig (WMDE).

2020-11-02 Automatic synchronization of RDF graphs representing ontologies and Wikibase instances during Wikidata Workshop, by Alejandro González Hevia, Guillermo Facundo Colunga, Emilio Rubiera Azcona and Jose Emilio Labra Gayo (University of Oviedo) [paper].
2020-11-24 → 2020-11-26 — Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall 2020 (SMWCon Fall 2020)
- What’s new in the world of Wikibase and where is it going?, by Lydia Pintscher and Jens Ohlig (WMDE).
- SMW and WikiBase: blasphemy or feasible?, by Luca Mauri.
- Connecting Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki, by Jeroen De Dauw (Professional.Wiki).

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