Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2025-10-15

Participants

Albin "Abbe" Larsson
Danny Benjafield WMDE
Deepesha Burse (WMDE)
Ifenomenal
Jan Ainali
Leif WMDE
Lucas Werkmeister
Lydia Pintscher
Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
Valerie WMDE
Vladimir Martyanov

Content

2025-10-15T16:01:48 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Our plan for today:
2025-10-15T16:01:56 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> 🛠 First half: A recap of development updates and community highlights from Q3
2025-10-15T16:02:04 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> 🚀 The second half: A look ahead at what's planned for this quarter (Q.4)
2025-10-15T16:02:18 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Please feel free to post your questions or comments at any point. We'll address them live as we can, and follow up on anything that needs more thought afterward
2025-10-15T16:02:31 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Let's kick things off with a review of the development work from the past quarter. Over to you @nightrose :)
2025-10-15T16:02:41 <Lydia Pintscher> Hey folks :)
2025-10-15T16:03:03 <Lydia Pintscher> We've been working a lot on making it possible to edit statements on mobile.
2025-10-15T16:03:27 <Lydia Pintscher> We started out with developing a new view mode and then started expanding it to editing.
2025-10-15T16:04:06 <Lydia Pintscher> You can see things come together on beta: https://www.wikidata.beta.wmcloud.org/wiki/Q424242
It's still rough and missing things but it'd be really valuable to get testing and feedback now and as we continue developing it.
2025-10-15T16:04:35 <Lydia Pintscher> If you or your local community has been asking for mobile editing support for Wikidata this is the time to get involved and try it out on beta.
2025-10-15T16:05:03 <Lydia Pintscher> Besides that we have done a ton of work to improve things for developers working with Wikidata's data.
2025-10-15T16:05:19 <Lydia Pintscher> We have enabled the new Item Prefix Search endpoint on wikidata. You can try it out now with a call like this: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/suggest/items?language=en&q=potat If you have feedback please leave it at Wikidata talk:REST API feedback round
2025-10-15T16:06:00 <Lydia Pintscher> We are experimenting with GraphQL and put up a prototype for feedback. You can get more information at Wikidata:Wikibase GraphQL prototype
2025-10-15T16:06:48 <Lydia Pintscher> We are also working on dumps to make them more reliable (there have been a few issues lately) and to make it possible to get smaller dumps instead of everything from Wikidata.
2025-10-15T16:07:07 <Lydia Pintscher> If you're interested in that we are looking for a few people to talk to about dump improvements. Let me know if you're up for it.
2025-10-15T16:07:49 <Lydia Pintscher> And last but not least we officially released the Wikidata embedding: Wikidata:Embedding Project
2025-10-15T16:08:00 <Lydia Pintscher> And along with it an MCP for Wikidata: Wikidata:MCP
2025-10-15T16:08:33 <Lydia Pintscher> If you'd like to know more about it you can rewatch the intro webinar we did on it: Event:Embedding Project Webinar
2025-10-15T16:09:11 <Lydia Pintscher> And last but not least we have an improvement for Lexemes:
2025-10-15T16:09:31 <Lydia Pintscher> You can now limit searches to Lexemes with a Lemma in a specific spelling variant with the haslemma keywords and to Lexemes with a specific language with the in language keyword. Two example calls:

2025-10-15T16:09:56 <Lydia Pintscher> And with that over to Ifenomenal for more about Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects
2025-10-15T16:10:00 <Ifenomenal> Thanks @Nightrose 🥁
2025-10-15T16:10:22 <Ifenomenal> Our engineers have been frenetically busy this last Quarter, working on several projects…
2025-10-15T16:11:48 <Ifenomenal> User:Ladsgroup flagged huge numbers of Wikidata edits in the Recent Changes table causing queries to the RC table to be very slow or even timeout. Our engineers swooped into action by:
2025-10-15T16:11:57 <Albin "Abbe" Larsson> reply to <Lucas Werkmeister> "I think for a single…" Thank you Lucas!
2025-10-15T16:12:45 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> reply to <Ifenomenal> "User:Ladsgroup flagg…" (there was even talk about databases 'exploding'!)
2025-10-15T16:12:57 <Ifenomenal> 🎯
Temporarily disabling Wikidata Qualifiers and References edits from appearing in RC / WL of other wikis (phabT401286).
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Adjusting edits to Wikidata Aliases to create fewer RC entries and WL notifications, usually only for relevant languages (phab:T401288).
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Finally, notifications for changes to Qualifier and References are being turned back on right now, although they will trigger far fewer RC entries and WL notifications (phab:T401290). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401288, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401290
2025-10-15T16:13:42 <Ifenomenal> On a separate note: If you are a Wikipedia Recent changes patroller (or any other non-Wikidata wiki), we’d love to hear your anecdotal feedback… noticed a decrease in the volume of Wikidata RC entries or WL notifications? Let us know on our Talk page: m:Talk:Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects/Clearer_Wikidata_Edit_Summaries
2025-10-15T16:14:08 <Ifenomenal> On the Edit Summaries front....
2025-10-15T16:14:50 <Ifenomenal> Last quarter, we had just added labels next to raw QID/PIDs in RC and WL pages, to make Wikidata edits easier to understand (phabT388685). [1]
2025-10-15T16:14:59 <Ifenomenal> Since then, we’ve been monitoring performance and cleaning up (phabT395674), (phabT388685). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388685
2025-10-15T16:15:21 <Ifenomenal> 🔜 Next week, we will trial four new visual icons on pilot wikis (he, uk, ca) that appear in the edit summary (phabT397258). The icons should provide a clear, at-a-glance indication of the edit type, such as removing a claim, adding a sitelink, changing a label, or merging items.
2025-10-15T16:15:38 <Ifenomenal> We're also making improvements to databox
2025-10-15T16:16:04 <Ifenomenal> A first foray into this area was to add a Wikidata logo + link to tell the reader the Databox is powered by Wikidata (phab:T400322). [2]
2025-10-15T16:16:21 <Ifenomenal> You can check out further planned improvements on our phabricator board
2025-10-15T16:16:41 <Ifenomenal> For now, I'll hand over to Deepesha for updates from the Wikibase Suite team
2025-10-15T16:16:47 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> Thank you Ifenomenal! Hey everyone :D
2025-10-15T16:16:52 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> reply to <Ifenomenal> "🔜 Next week, we wil…" (Wikipedias)
2025-10-15T16:17:25 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> The Wikibase Suite team was working on 3 fronts, documentation, federation and how to better the self-hosting experience
2025-10-15T16:17:45 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> Let's start with the self hosting experience
2025-10-15T16:17:54 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> We began research to track and measure the self-hosting experience
2025-10-15T16:18:05 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> We mapped out the complete journey that organizations take when setting up their own Wikibase, from initial interest to full operation.
2025-10-15T16:18:19 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> We investigated QuickStatements 3.0 for becoming part of the Wikibase Suite and talked to the development team in Brasil
2025-10-15T16:18:35 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> Moving on to documentation assessment..
2025-10-15T16:18:46 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> We started a comprehensive review of our current documentation to understand how users experience it and where they encounter difficulties.
2025-10-15T16:19:00 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> And we started to work on a new Wikibase discovery feature in collaboration with Wikibase Cloud and Wikibase.world
2025-10-15T16:19:28 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> And now Ontology Federation 😄
2025-10-15T16:19:41 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> We successfully brought back to life a promising prototype called "Federated Properties" that had been dormant for four years.
2025-10-15T16:20:37 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> Through internal testing and technical validation,, we confirmed the prototype's potential and aligned our team on a path forward. We decided to enhance the original concept and expand its capabilities.
2025-10-15T16:21:10 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> Handing over to @masssly for our non-dev updates!
2025-10-15T16:21:50 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> We will come back to give some Cloud updates but for now lets talk about some non dev things that happened
2025-10-15T16:22:03 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> There was also a lot of exciting activity across the Wikidata and Wikibase communities in Q.3. Here’s a look at some of them:
2025-10-15T16:22:16 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> We saw 3 new Admin requests and one was successful. Welcome onboard User:Aqurs1 🎉
2025-10-15T16:22:23 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> On the Bot side, we had 4 requests covering a range of tasks and two of them were approved
2025-10-15T16:22:32 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Several new tools and scripts were developed in the last quarter, and some older tools received increased attention that you might have missed:
2025-10-15T16:22:40 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Duplicity (https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/duplicity/#/): This tool can pick a random article on a wiki without associated Wikidata item, and offer some possible matches on Wikidata, so you can add it to an existing item, or create a new one.
2025-10-15T16:22:49 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> User:Jon Harald Søby/senseItemLabel.js is a UserScript that lets you add the lemma for the current Lexeme as a label to Items added to the Lexeme's senses as item for this sense (P5137) in one click
2025-10-15T16:22:57 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Wikinity (https://wikinity.toolforge.org/) is a tool allowing you to find (un)photographed objects, so you can take a picture of them and send it to Wikidata. The tool was created by @urbanecm
2025-10-15T16:23:04 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Guess the Gender (https://ordia.toolforge.org/guess-the-gender/) is a Wikidata-based game (inspired from @Auregann ‘s DerDieDas) to practice gendered languages, using lexicographical data
2025-10-15T16:23:10 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Who Painted this (https://whopaintedthis.toolforge.org/) is a tool developed by @dhinus that lets you guess who created a painting, using data from Wikidata
2025-10-15T16:23:18 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Flashback Fiesta (https://flashbackfiesta.app/) is a trivia game that challenges players to guess the year of historical events using data from Wikidata
2025-10-15T16:23:29 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> We've seen several new WikiProjects launched in recent months. These include:
2025-10-15T16:23:35 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Wikidata:WikiProject Irish Traditional Music - This project aims to enhance the representation of Irish traditional music on Wikidata
2025-10-15T16:23:42 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Wikidata:WikiProject They Were Not Witches, They Were Women - A Wikidata project preserving the stories of women accused as witches in Catalonia and Andorra (1419--1796
2025-10-15T16:23:48 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Wikidata:WikiProject Art UK is an effort to document the various properties and volunteer (art-related) work on Wikidata
2025-10-15T16:23:58 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> WikiProjects are an excellent way to connect with other editors who share your interests and to coordinate efforts on specific topics
2025-10-15T16:24:04 <Albin "Abbe" Larsson> reply to <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> "Through internal tes…" I just want to say that Govdirectory is very very interested in this!
2025-10-15T16:24:05 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> You're always welcome to join existing projects or start a new one. If you do create a project, please remember to add it to the Wikidata:Status updates/Next so others can join you there
2025-10-15T16:24:16 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Here are a few noteworthy items to read and watch in various languages:
2025-10-15T16:24:24 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Visualizations of Philosophers Influence in history (https://mpjuhasz.com/posts/influenced_by/) - Take a look if you're interested in the history of philosophy, temporal graphs, or Wikidata!
2025-10-15T16:24:31 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Wikidata, instance of and subclass of through time (P31 & P279) (https://addshore.com/2025/08/wikidata-instance-of-and-subclass-of-through-time-p31-p279/) - Analysis visualizing the explosive growth of the foundational instance of (P31) and subclass of (P279) properties, showcasing how Wikidata's ontological backbone has been built over time. By @addshore
2025-10-15T16:24:38 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Big Tech locks data away. Wikidata gives it back to the internet (https://www.fastcompany.com/91391335/big-tech-locks-data-away-wikidata-gives-it-back-to-the-internet) - Highlights Wikidata as a powerful, open alternative to the data silos of big tech, giving structured data back to the public internet
2025-10-15T16:24:45 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Using Duplicity: Link Wikipedia articles to Wikidata Items (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6gjBPOXm-ak)
2025-10-15T16:24:51 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Provenance and Restitution: Shared knowledge graphs as a tool in recovering looted cultural heritage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUjnDEZuYU)
2025-10-15T16:24:57 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Wikidata and public domain (Spanish) (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztx208Nhtco)
2025-10-15T16:25:11 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Quick note. We recently published the 2024 Community Survey, which offers insights into the Wikidata editor community. The report covers editor demographics, activities contributors engage in, etc. You can read the full report to explore the findings here commons:File:Wikidata Community Survey 2024 Report.pdf
2025-10-15T16:25:15 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Finally some updates around events…
2025-10-15T16:25:24 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Lydia and I attended wikimania:2025:Wikimania in August and enjoyed connecting with many of you there. If you missed the WIkidata sessions, recordings are available online https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/schedule/ or on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@TheWikimediaFoundation/playlists
2025-10-15T16:25:33 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> I highly recommend reviewing the slide "Wikidata: a whirlwind tour through the land of Wikidata-powered apps" to see some of the cool ways people are using Wikidata's data
2025-10-15T16:25:39 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> WikiCite 2025 also happened in August in Bern. If you’re interested in the bibliographic data ecosystem on Wikidata then take a look at the program documentation here m:WikiCite_2025
2025-10-15T16:25:58 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> for some upcoming events:
2025-10-15T16:26:10 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Danny and I will be attending Wikiindaba 2025 in November and are excited to connect with Wikidata people who will also be there
2025-10-15T16:26:19 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> 🎁 Countdown to 13! Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday is on October 29th 🎁
2025-10-15T16:26:24 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Local celebrations are already underway around the globe 🥳🎉🎉🥳
2025-10-15T16:26:33 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Shoutouts to event organisers in the Wali Wikimedians Community, Hausa Wikipedians User Group, language communities of Twi, Dagbani and Kinyarwanda, and many more who have held celebrations already
2025-10-15T16:26:40 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area or join existing upcoming events. For a full rundown of all Birthday Events, please see the Wikidata:Thirteenth_Birthday/Calendar
2025-10-15T16:26:52 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Still on the Birthday: on the 29th we’ll be hosting a call at 6pm Berlin to unwrap presents, read birthday messages and play some games
2025-10-15T16:26:57 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Be sure to join us, as we have a major announcement to share so make sure you mark that in your calendar
2025-10-15T16:27:08 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Then from the 31st we shall also be hosting WikidataCon 2025 -- the conference that brings Wikidata enthusiasts to explore open data projects
2025-10-15T16:27:18 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> @Benny_Danjerfield, would you like to share more on how people can participate in WikidataCon and any other updates from the WIT team?
2025-10-15T16:27:53 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> Thanks Mohammed!
2025-10-15T16:28:19 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> What exciting things happened (or are happening) then!
2025-10-15T16:28:44 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> Embedding Project Webinar - I know, I know, it’s already mentioned above, but I was really happy to be part of the Embedding Project Webinar, providing background work setting up the event page and social media posts as well as on the day introductions.
2025-10-15T16:28:51 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> Did you miss it? The recording is now available: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Embedding_Project_Webinar
2025-10-15T16:29:50 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> As Mohammed mentioned above, we, and Ifeatu, will be travelling to Tanzania for WikiIndaba 2025. Our plan is to show off the revamped and revitalised Databox you'll hear more about!
2025-10-15T16:30:27 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> But the big thing on everyone's minds (aside from the 13th Birthday) is, of course...
WIKIDATACON 2025
2025-10-15T16:30:58 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> A schedule is available on Pretalx, here's the link for your convenience: https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/schedule/
2025-10-15T16:31:29 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> I'll be creating a Wikitext version soon for the WDC Homepage at d:Event:WikidataCon_2025
2025-10-15T16:32:03 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> Speaking of which...did you know, WDC is totally free to join, but you should register to the Event to get the access link and receive updates from the program team.
2025-10-15T16:32:27 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> Yu cna do that on the Event page...or use this link, right here -> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/1340
2025-10-15T16:33:32 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> Today we had a technical test with the live-captioning / auto-translation software and there are some technical kinks to work out but our Team Events are hard at work making live translations available for our audience
2025-10-15T16:35:01 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> Apart from this, we hope to be involved with the Wiki Loves Afro Literature event - supporting our colleagues in the marginalized knowledge team at Wikimedia Deutschland, to find ways to use Wikidata in the event, whether redlists or contribuitng to Items and siteinking articles (and hopefully, adding Databoxes!)
2025-10-15T16:36:25 <Valerie WMDE> Hey everyone, I'm going to take over and continue with Non-Dev Wikibase news :)
2025-10-15T16:36:41 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> And that wraps it up for me, take it away Val^^ xD
2025-10-15T16:37:44 <Valerie WMDE> first of all, I wanted to draw attention to a digital humanities work that has been published recently
2025-10-15T16:37:52 <Valerie WMDE> https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/10/breaking-down-data-silos-sparqulb-an-rdf-ecosystem-to-mutualize-humanities-research-projects-needs-journal-of-open-initiatives-in-academic-libraries/
2025-10-15T16:38:08 <Valerie WMDE> ‘’Breaking Down Data Silos: SPARQuLb, An RDF Ecosystem to Mutualize Humanities Research Projects Needs’’ by Sébastien De Valeriola and Anthony Leroy
2025-10-15T16:38:21 <Valerie WMDE> and Wikibase was part of it 👏
2025-10-15T16:39:12 <Valerie WMDE> followed by a cool initiative called Quechuabase.org
2025-10-15T16:39:35 <Valerie WMDE> it's a tool/service to make under-resourced languages community-driven, accessible, reusable, and AI-ready
2025-10-15T16:39:52 <Valerie WMDE> you might have heard about the same named Wikibase about the language of Quechua
2025-10-15T16:40:04 <Valerie WMDE> https://qichwa.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
2025-10-15T16:40:31 <Valerie WMDE> Other than that, a new extension has been launched by Professional Wiki
2025-10-15T16:40:46 <Valerie WMDE> called Wikibase Faceted Search
2025-10-15T16:40:59 <Valerie WMDE> a new Wikibase extension that enhances the default search page experience with user-friendly filtering capabilities
2025-10-15T16:41:11 <Valerie WMDE> you can read more about it here: https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/09/19/enhanced-search-for-wikibase/
2025-10-15T16:41:31 <Valerie WMDE> Thank you 👏
2025-10-15T16:41:47 <Valerie WMDE> Lastly, there was the CEE Meeting in Thessaloniki about 2 weeks ago
2025-10-15T16:42:05 <Valerie WMDE> There were lots of interesting talks and workshops around Wikibase
2025-10-15T16:42:20 <Valerie WMDE> I highly recommend checking out the programme page and watch the material
2025-10-15T16:42:27 <Valerie WMDE> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2025/Programme
2025-10-15T16:43:53 <Valerie WMDE> and one more lastly, I will publish the goals for Wikibase Suite and Cloud tomorrow on the development plan page, so stay tuned 🎤

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan
2025-10-15T16:44:08 <Valerie WMDE> And now, I'm going to give it to @Nightrose for upcoming plans in Q4
2025-10-15T16:44:21 <Valerie WMDE> good to see you 💦
2025-10-15T16:44:23 <Jan Ainali> reply to <wikilinksbot> "Q4 💀 death [https:/…" Ominous!
2025-10-15T16:44:33 <Lydia Pintscher> Oo
2025-10-15T16:44:50 <Lydia Pintscher> We'll skip this quarter and move right to Q5 :D
2025-10-15T16:45:30 <Lydia Pintscher> On the Wikidata side we will continue to work on mobile statement editing also next quarter.
2025-10-15T16:46:00 <Lydia Pintscher> And we will continue the experiemnts around GraphQL and research about how to best improve the dumps.
2025-10-15T16:46:56 <Lydia Pintscher> We'll also start working on making wiki projects more visible for example looking into a social media campaign and getting the newcomer homepage enabled on Wikidata so we can point new editors to helpful places including wiki projects.
2025-10-15T16:48:28 <Lydia Pintscher> And last but not least the new Wikidata Platform Team at the Wikimedia Foundation is starting to get up to speed on all things query service. They will look into benchmarking some alternative backends we could move to from Blazegraph. They are also building upon existing benchmarks that have been done already.
2025-10-15T16:48:57 <Lydia Pintscher> Ifenomenal What's going to happen around Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects?
2025-10-15T16:49:02 <Ifenomenal> wow! So much exciting stuff. Thanks @Nightrose
2025-10-15T16:49:19 <Ifenomenal> We also have some exciting work to keep us busy for the rest of the year
2025-10-15T16:49:39 <Ifenomenal> We'll continue working on the databox
2025-10-15T16:50:12 <Ifenomenal> 🎁 One of the Databox wishes was to allow selection of the media it contains, so we will create a parameter that will allow choosing any image (rather than the current Preferred) (phab:T400318).
2025-10-15T16:50:41 <Ifenomenal> 🎁 We also want to create a new parameter at the invoke template stage that will allow greater control over what Properties+Values will display in the Databox (phab:T400319).
2025-10-15T16:51:29 <Ifenomenal> Like @Benny_Danjerfield said earlier, we're looking forward to meeting community members at WikiIndaba and elsewhere to talk about this
2025-10-15T16:51:55 <Ifenomenal> What's planned on the Wikibase Suite things @deepeshab
2025-10-15T16:52:04 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> Amazing Ifenomenal, thanks! The Wikibase Suite team will continue working around those three topics - improving the self-hosting experience, documentation assessment and ontology federation. Let's look into these in detail one by one 🎉
2025-10-15T16:52:32 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> For self-hosting, we will launch a comprehensive measurement system to track how well the self-hosting experience works today. This will give us concrete data to guide our improvement efforts and measure our progress over time.
2025-10-15T16:53:14 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> About documentation, we will launch at least one major documentation enhancement to make information more accessible and user-friendly. We're also beginning a comprehensive update of our installation guide, focusing on clearer instructions and better accessibility for users of all technical backgrounds. 😄
2025-10-15T16:53:52 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> As for Ontology federation, we will release a beta version of our new federation feature, making it available through at least one live Wikibase instance for real-world testing. 🥳
2025-10-15T16:53:53 <Jan Ainali> reply to <Ifenomenal> "We'll continue worki…" Is there some general documentation page for the Databox?
2025-10-15T16:54:04 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> We'll also begin broader community testing to gather feedback and refine the feature based on actual use cases and user experiences
2025-10-15T16:54:44 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> Over to you @masssly :D
2025-10-15T16:55:16 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Alright, that was all the updates from us. We have some time today for questions
2025-10-15T16:56:02 <Ifenomenal> reply to <Jan Ainali> "Is there some genera…" here you go: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Module:Databox
2025-10-15T16:56:20 <Vladimir Martyanov> reply to <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> "About documentation,…" I have no idea why I can use a local Wikibase, but if you need testing - I can help :-)
2025-10-15T16:57:02 <Deepesha Burse (WMDE)> reply to <Vladimir Martyanov> "I have no idea why I…" Thank you :D
2025-10-15T16:57:41 <Danny Benjafield WMDE> Actually we are looking for willing Pilot Wikipedias for Databox changes, so if you'd like to nominate your local Wiki or have us approach them, plz let us know! You can @me privately or contact me on-wiki
2025-10-15T16:58:56 <Lydia Pintscher> I have one question: Which session are you looking forward to for WikidataCon?
2025-10-15T16:59:25 <Lydia Pintscher> I'm quite excited about this panel I have with Jan, Mateus, Jona and Friedrich: https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/talk/WZMVLL/
2025-10-15T17:00:56 <Jan Ainali> reply to <Lydia Pintscher> "I have one question:…" "Mad Libs with Wikidata Lexemes and Abstract Content" looks fun
2025-10-15T17:01:11 <Ifenomenal> reply to <Jan Ainali> ""Mad Libs with Wikid…" great title!
2025-10-15T17:01:23 <Ifenomenal> reply to <Lydia Pintscher> "I'm quite excited ab…" also excited about this one
2025-10-15T17:02:04 <Ifenomenal> I'm curious about this one: https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/talk/9XFAPD/
2025-10-15T17:02:45 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> I am looking forward most to Observations on Lexeme Modeling Across Languages 😊
2025-10-15T17:02:49 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/talk/GZ9ASF/
2025-10-15T17:02:57 <Ifenomenal> and of course about how the African communities are using it in this one: https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/talk/MAAVNL/
2025-10-15T17:03:14 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> yeah this too for me
2025-10-15T17:03:35 <Lucas Werkmeister> I’m interested in https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/talk/NUCLHE/ after talking to some folks about it at WikiCon already
2025-10-15T17:04:04 <Leif WMDE> Looking fw to this one:
https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/talk/YG3NSA/
2025-10-15T17:05:51 <Lydia Pintscher> Ok time for some bragging. Anyone got something cool they are working on and want to share?
2025-10-15T17:06:09 <Jan Ainali> A little bit scary: we are launching the USA on Govdirectory in time for WikiConference North America.
2025-10-15T17:06:16 <Lydia Pintscher> Uhhhhhhhh
2025-10-15T17:06:25 <Lydia Pintscher> Exciting
2025-10-15T17:06:38 <Lucas Werkmeister> oh dear. good luck
2025-10-15T17:07:27 <Jan Ainali> Hopefully it will inspire some people and get everyone in other states than North Carolina, which is the only state at launch, in competitive mode 😅
2025-10-15T17:07:39 <Vladimir Martyanov> reply to <Lydia Pintscher> "Ok time for some bra…" I'm trying to add printed (and pre-wikipedia) sources to historical information about ex-USSR science :-D
2025-10-15T17:10:01 <Lucas Werkmeister> reply to <Lydia Pintscher> "Ok time for some bra…" I’ve been working on a new version of Namescript with better MUL support, see Wikidata talk:Namescript :)
2025-10-15T17:11:08 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Okay folks, tat's it for today's office hours. As you read the chat, you're welcome to send us your thoughts or questions and we will respond to them async
2025-10-15T17:11:13 <Mohammed Sadat Abdulai> Thank everyone for coming. See you at the next one