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, video].
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].
2020-10-26 ADR-15: Use PSR-11-compatible MediaWiki service container as extension basis.
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).

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