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Großartige Stimmung beim Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul! 🎉

Deepesha Burse von Wikimedia Deutschland war vor Ort und tauschte sich als Developer Advocate für #Wikibase intensiv mit der Community aus – zu Herausforderungen, Ideen & neuen Erweiterungen des Wikibase Bundles :)

Danke für deinen Einsatz, Deepesha, und an alle, die an der technischen Verbesserung von Projekten wie Wikipedia oder Wikibase arbeiten! 💻🌍

fourth weekend in a row with hacking on @wdscholia, following up from the hacking in autumn, addressing the @wikidata graph split. That then included a patch to Scholia-wide configure the SPARQL endpoint.

But, last night, I made a proof-of-concept of a patch that brings this configuration to a single SPARQL query.

The impact will be massive: the Scholia platform will be able to have panels from any SPARQL endpoint. E.g. any @Wikibase

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🧵 6/9 knowledge graph for the IPCC Reports is designed with for derivative publishing. Searches can be saved, shared and outputted as multi-format: LOD, Web, PDF, etc. Status: Production - already in place and working - with pipeline options available - based on #CPS Computational Publishing Service of @NFDI4Culture nfdi4culture.de/services/detai #Wikibase is used as a datastore #Juypternotebooks for composing and @quarto_pub #vivliosytle for rendering -pixel perfect replacements for the dreaded PDF!

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🧵 5/9 Data relationship model: Status Pre-alpha - This will be the core of 2025 work. The content has been preped, the #Wikibase infra is ready. Plans are to #KISS and build up a simple framework for the #climate community to connect to. Experiments have been made on #Wikibasecloud kg-ipclimatec-reports.wikibase - thanks to Egon Willighagen, Lars Willighagen 🚀 #ClimateKG #semanticClimate

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🧵 4/9 IPCC Glossary semantification and enhancement. The 800+ terms from AR5 and AR6 have had several experimental rounds carried out: Screenscraped to GitHub, loaded into a Wikibase install, demonstrated as a index to tag documents, rendered out to Paged Media CSS with Wikipedia enhancements, and translation to Hindi. #ClimateKG #semanticClimate - In #wikibase climatekg.semanticclimate.net/ as Paged Media CSS using #vivliostyle vivliostyle.vercel.app/#src=ht

🚨 Our next Wikidata + #Wikibase Office Hour of 2025 is happening next week!

📅 When? Wednesday, April 16th
⏰ Time? 16:00 UTC | 18:00 Berlin
📍 Where? Join us on the Wikidata Telegram channel

What’s in store?
✅ Updates from the WMDE development team on our latest work in 2025
✅ A chance to ask questions, share your thoughts, & discuss topics you care about
✅ Connect with fellow Wikidata/Wikibase enthusiasts & learn about cool community projects

More details: w.wiki/6tXp

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📢 MetaBelgica Milestone!

We analyzed more than one million person authority records from the Royal Library of Belgium and our partners —our first big deliverable! We standardized dates & places, enriching data with GeoNames. This helps with public domain checks & multilingual linking.

🚀 Next steps: detecting overlaps & integrating data across institutions.

📄 Report: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1512090
💻 Code: github.com/metaBelgica/person- (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15120909)

ZenodoMetaBelgica - Person data analysisPerson data analysis from the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Royal Museums for Art and History. Added Initial version of the notebook and helper scripts copied from internal repo with mixed content

💙✨ Free Software – eine große Lovestory!

Heute ist Free Software Day - Grund zu feiern 🎉 Freie Software gibt uns die Freiheit, Wissen zu teilen, zu gestalten und digital unabhängig zu sein. Ohne sie wäre das offene Web nicht dasselbe! Wir lieben besonders Wikidata, Wikibase und MediaWiki – für digitale Selbstbestimmung und freien Zugang zu Wissen!

Welche freie Software lässt euer Herz höher schlagen? 💘💻 Verratet es uns! ⬇️