Envel Le HirWikibase Yearly Summary 2020
This timeline tracks what happened around Wikibase in 2020 and is frequently updated. Items are listed using the following categories:
Articles & News
Documentation
Talks
Meetings
Staffing
Technical
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.
February
- 2020-02-01 Wikibase Ecosystem, taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher at FOSDEM (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).
March
- 2020-03-04 Could you wikify an authority file? Wikibase has been evaluated for the Integrated Authority File (GND), by Barbara Fischer (DNB), Jens Ohlig.
- 2020-03-04 ADR-9: Refactor hooks for testability.
April
- 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.
May
- 2020-05-05 Wikidata Course at TAU, Part 2/4: Wikibase & Lexemes, by Shani Evenstein with Lydia Pintscher.
- 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, Bruce Washburn, OCLC.
- 2020-05-30 [fr] Wikibase exploration, huge technical experience feedback on Wikibase, related to FNE proof of concept.
June
- 2020-06-10 Cataloguing Practices in the Age of Linked Open Data: Wikidata and Wikibase for Film Archives, by Adelheid Heftberger, 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.
July
- 2020-07-02 Second online meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group (notes).
- 2020-07-02 Version 1.1 of wikiba.se is released.
- 2020-07-09 Linked data for libraries with Wikibase, by Jens Ohlig at LD4 (video).
- 2020-07-13 [fr] FNE proof of concept: synthesis and decisions [it’s a go!], by BnF and ABES (report).
- 2020-07-15 Change: removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead.
- 2020-07-16 [fr] FNE project: Wikibase proof of concept completed, by ABES.
- 2020-07-20 Change: WikibaseClient example config will no longer define an example repo.
- 2020-07-21 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland (notes).
August
- 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.
September
- 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, Jens Ohlig (slides).
- Use case: The German National Library’s work on the Integrated Authority File, by Barbara Fischer, Sarah Hartmann (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.
October
- 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 (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
- 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.
- 2020-10-27 Wikidata & Wikibase office hour by Wikimedia Deutschland.
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