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Second Pywikibot workshop on Friday, March 25th, 16:00 UTC

Hello everyone, The second workshop on the topic of "Running Pywikibot scripts" is coming up - it will take place on Friday, March 25th at 16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join here. This workshop will introduce participants to the bot scripts available via the Pywikibot framework and how to use them. If you missed attending the first one, it would be beneficial to have Pywikibot installed on your computer before the workshop. We look forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:01, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC

Hello! The third workshop on the topic of "Writing Pywikibot scripts" is coming up - it will take place on Friday, April 29th at 16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join here. This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework. Please follow through with the prerequisites if you plan to attend this workshop, particularly understanding how classes and methods work in Python, among others listed in the workshop details on the wiki page. We look forward to your participation!

Cheers, Srishti (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:46, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

[Small wiki toolkits] Fourth Bots workshop at Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 (May 20-22nd)

Hello, The fourth workshop on the topic of "Running popular bots on wikis" is coming up - several sessions will be run as part of it at the upcoming Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 (May 20-22nd). You can find more details on the workshop here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_run_a_popular_bot_on_your_wiki.

This workshop will introduce participants to a few popular bots in the Wikimedia ecosystem, how to set them up on the wikis, and tackle problems concerning the setup. This workshop will organize three sessions around InternetArchiveBot, YoBot, and SuggestBot. See more details https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306593. We look forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:25, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC

Hello, The fifth workshop on the topic of "Hosting bots and scripts on Toolforge" is coming up - it will take place on Thursday, June 30th at 16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_host_a_bot_on_Toolforge. This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access it via ssh, create and run bots and scripts, etc. You can add your discussion ideas in the etherpad doc linked from the workshops page. To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with using command-line tools and technical knowledge of bots. We look forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:21, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to maintain bots" workshop on Thursday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC

Hello, The sixth workshop on the topic of "How to maintain bots" is coming up - it will take place on Friday, July 29th at 16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_maintain_bots. This session will focus on best practices for maintaining bots and tools in the Wikimedia ecosystem. It will cover a few practices that can help developers run a bot or a tool with help from others, such as picking a license, adding co-maintainers to the project, publishing source code, writing docs, and much more. To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with bots or tools development. You can add your discussion ideas in the etherpad doc linked from the workshops page. We look forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:17, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

This workshop was postponed earlier. Here is the new date and time for this workshop - Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_maintain_bots. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 09:54, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC

Hello! The eighth workshop on the topic of "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" is coming up - it will take place on Friday, October 7th at 16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_interact_with_Wikidata_via_Pywikibot. This workshop will summarize how to access and save information to Wikidata, including through page generators and queries*, using Pywikibot. It will also cover the Wikidata conventions about the bot editing, including the bot approvals process (*queries not included, please bring your own!). To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with Wikidata and Pywikibot installation. We look forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:59, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Updates from Capacity Exchange (CapX)!

Hello TBurmeister (WMF),

My name is Joris Darlington Quarshie, and I am an Outreach Facilitator for the Capacity Exchange (CapX) — a platform for finding and connecting with peers to exchange knowledge and skills on a global level.

CapX is a community-built tool, designed by and for the Wikimedia Movement, to make it easier for Wikimedians across the world to find and connect, collaborate, and exchange skills and knowledge with peers.

If you don't know it yet, I invite you to access capx.toolforge.org and create your user profile with your Wikimedia account. But, if you already have a profile, I invite you to check out the new features and possibilities we just launched. I am sure you will be delighted.

CapX's new version incorporates valuable community feedback gathered over the past months, including the Organization Profile - a feature for Wikimedia affiliates, initiatives, or community groups to create their own CapX presence (see here how to create yours).

Click to log in using your Wikimedia unified account through authentication:

Sign up now

Explore CapX's new features

→ Access: capx.toolforge.org
→ Watch the launch video:Meet the Capacity Exchange
→ Navigate CapX's User Guide and Frequently Asked Questions
→ Share your profile on Meta by adding the predefinition {{CapacityExchange}} to your userpage.
→ Visit our Meta Page for all documentation on the project
→ Join our telegram channel: Capx Telegram Group

Please, let me know if you think your community would enjoy a presentation, workshop demonstration, or feedback session. I would be happy to support you on that. Just reach out, and we can schedule the best date and time together.

Best regards,

Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:56, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Join us for “Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages”!

Hello TBurmeister (WMF),

We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages

• Date: December 6, 2025
• Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
• Location: Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)

Register for the Event here

If you can’t join the live event, you can still contribute to the translations! Edits will be counted for two weeks, until December 20th. And everyone who participates will receive a special badge to display on their CapX profiles.

Strengthen your collaboration through CapX

We invite you and your community to join the Capacity Exchange (CapX), a Wikimedia community-built platform for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging skills with peers across the movement.

CapX helps Wikimedians and organizations find each other, share expertise, and build stronger, more connected communities.

Whether you’re an individual contributor, a user group, a community initiative or an affiliate, CapX helps you grow through knowledge exchange.

Sign up to CapX

More information

→ Explore the CapX platform: capx.toolforge.org
→ Read: User Guide & FAQ
→ Watch: Meet the Capacity Exchange video
→ Join our Telegram community chat: CapX Telegram Group

If your community, usergroup or affiliate would like to have a CapX organization profile, please reach out at capx@wmnobrasil.org, and we’d be delighted to support you.

With warm regards,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:55, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata Platform Newsletter - July 2026

This is the 8th issue of our monthly newsletter! The next issue will be published in August 2026.

• Documentation on Query Rewrites: As WDQS continues its migration off Blazegraph, queries that rely on Blazegraph-specific extensions will need to be updated to comply with the SPARQL 1.1 and GeoSPARQL standards. To support this, we are publishing documentation to help you identify affected queries and rewrite them, so your queries keep working through the migration and beyond.

This transition to standard SPARQL reduces vendor lock-in, improves interoperability with other triplestores, and ensures our codebase remains robust. Importantly, the specifics of these rewrites are doing more than just guiding manual code updates. The details define the processing logic for an upcoming tool designed to automatically convert Blazegraph queries into standard SPARQL for the QLever engine.

The query rewrite details are focused on four key areas:

1. Graph Analytic Services (GAS): See Blazegraph_Migration:_Rewrite_of_GAS
2. MediaWiki API (MWAPI) Service: See Blazegraph_Migration:_Rewrite_of_MWAPI
3. Label and Utility Services: See Blazegraph_Migration:_Rewrite_of_Label_and_Utility_Services_and_Functions
4. Geospatial Functions: See Blazegraph_Migration:_Rewrite_of_Geospatial_Services_and_Functions

We Want Your Feedback!

As we map out these transition rules and develop the automated QLever conversion program, your input is critical. Please review the Wikitech pages linked above and let us know whether:

• The rewrite rules cover your use cases
• There are edge cases or specific Blazegraph quirks that are not accounted for

Please share your thoughts, concerns, or examples of queries on the related Discussion pages of the links above, so we can ensure the automated converter works seamlessly for everyone.

• Technical Build Complete: We are preparing to onboard the pilot migration cohort at https://query-next.wikidata.org (and https://query-scholarly-next.wikidata.org).

The system architecture from the WDQS v2 design doc has been implemented and deployed on Kubernetes. We ran a successful end-to end-test and validated that the QLever deployment can pick up a newly built index, start to backfill it with real-time events, and once ready the database can be queried. The service returns valid results, metrics are properly reported and available in Grafana, and logs are shipped to Wikimedia’s Observability Platform. Upcoming work will be focused on performance optimization and improvements to the indexing and real-time update pipelines supporting the service.

• Timeline Update: As mentioned in our June newsletter, we are kicking off the Initial Implementation phase of the Blazegraph migration in July. After a few short weeks of final testing and iteration on the new endpoints, the first round of WDQS v2 users will be given access to the new endpoints so they can begin their migration. The QLever endpoints will become accessible to the broader community by October 1st, when we kick off Full Implementation, along with documentation on query rewriting.
• Reminder to Report Use Cases: We encourage all members of the community to continue helping us identify higher-risk areas, namely SPARQL queries that are highly complex, by reporting use cases on our high-impact use cases and tools page. As a reminder, any use case can be reported through this mechanism. The purpose of this page is to give the WDP team visibility into user-level migration needs.
• Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (July session): Our next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour will take place, Tuesday, 7 July 2026. This session is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page.

In preparation, we encourage you to add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad. This helps us shape the agenda and focus on the most relevant topics during the session.

Udehb-WMF (talk) 10:54, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata Platform Newsletter - August 2026

This is the 9th issue of our monthly newsletter! The next issue will be published in September 2026. This is the 9th issue of our monthly newsletter! The next issue will be published in September 2026.

• WDQSv2 Scaling: Work in Progress: The new QLever public endpoints are serving live traffic and are generally available to pilot cohort clients for testing. Our partner team at WMDE started porting the Query UI to https://query-next.wikidata.org and https://query-scholarly-next.wikidata.org. We have also rolled out a number of improvements to support federation and increase availability of the service. We have stood up a new staging environment on Kubernetes. Lastly, we are experimenting with a bleeding edge version of QLever that significantly improves memory footprint and update performance, and supports index rebuilds without needing service restarts.

• SPARQL Query Re-Writing Tool: We have begun work on a tool that will rewrite Blazegraph-specific SPARQL queries into a format that is compatible with our new QLever implementation. This tool will apply the rewrite guidance we have published on WikiTech, offering an easier path for users to migrate to WDQS v2. The purpose of this tool is not to fully adapt all queries to the new endpoint, but to support users through their migration efforts. Development on the test infrastructure is underway and expected to be complete by August 14th. An evaluation of rewrite performance will be complete by September 4th, when we will share our results. We will iterate throughout the month of September and provide access to the tool by the first week of October.

• Reminder to Report Use Cases: We encourage all members of the community to continue helping us identify higher-risk areas, namely SPARQL queries that are highly complex, by reporting use cases on our high-impact use cases and tools page. As a reminder, any use case can be reported through this mechanism. The purpose of this page is to give the WDP team visibility into user-level migration needs.

• Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (August session): Our next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, 4th August 2026. This session is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page.

In preparation, we encourage you to add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad. This helps us shape the agenda and focus on the most relevant topics during the session.

Udehb-WMF (talk) 17:10, 3 August 2026 (UTC)