Wikibase Community User Group/Meetings/2023-01-26
Appearance
Online meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group.
Summary
[edit]- 16:00 UTC (17:00 Berlin), 1 hour, Thursday 26th Jan 2023
- Online meeting: https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession
- Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2023.02.23
Participants
[edit]- Valerie Wollinger (WMDE)
- Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry (WikiFur.com/WBUG)
- Evelien (WMDE)
- David Fichtmueller
- Eduards SKvireckis
- Elwin Huaman
- Mairelys
- labdom
- Peter Chan (Stanford Libraries)
Agenda
[edit]- 17:00h - 17:05h Welcome everyone!
- 17:10h - 17:25h results, user survey
- 17:25h - 17:35h thoughts and feedback
- 17:35h - 17:45h presentation á 5 minutes
- 17:45h - 17:50h WBUG annual report reminder
- 17:50h - 18:00h last words and rounding off
Notes
[edit]- Valerie and Evelien presented a walkthrough of Wikibase.cloud community survey results
- 56% with prior Wikibase experience (with Cloud or Suite as well, designed structure of dataset, motivation is share data with others *and* find long-term home for data) vs 44% with little/no experience (1-4 months, confident with data, finding long-term home for data *or* sharing with others)
- Those with experience wanted to model data quickly/effortlessly, novices wanted to explore Wikibase.cloud
- Both found setting up viewing entering data largely not confusing
- Both found modelling data confusing as well as importing
- Everyone thought documentation should be present high need and lack, most important aspect to improve and least favourite aspect of the current situation
- User demographics: Overwhelmingly Europe/America (except one), cis men (only four female)
- GreenReaper: Maybe ask those who are female and wanted to be followed up with to give more details about the challenges they face getting into Wikibase/why they think others don't.
- Users "generally love" Wikibase.cloud, could serve many initiatives for LOD creation for free/all.
- Demand to fix Cradle and other tools, will look to accommodate desire for better data modelling.
- Survey results to be published (on the mailing list) as well as a future WMDE development plan
- Wikibase Community User Group annual affiliate report for 2022
- To be edited: Wikibase Community User Group/Reports/2022
- Comparison: Wikibase Community User Group/Reports/2020
- Valerie suggested seek contributors in the mailing list and Telegram group, maybe a poll.
- Some brief discussion of WikidataCon 2023 (in 2021 we had a Wikibase track)
- Laurence talks about experiences at the last WikidataCon in 2021 and suggests other visitors to craft a paper/presentation for this year.
- Wikidatacon 2023, 28/29 October held in Taipei as well as online: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
- Valerie - Cradle request for issues that are not already on the board
- task T317109
- task T317173
- Laurence: Import from WBStack GitHub?
- https://github.com/wbstack/cradle/issues has various that were not addressed before Wikibase.cloud migration (similar for https://github.com/wbstack/mediawiki/issues, https://github.com/wbstack/queryservice-ui/issues, https://github.com/wbstack/quickstatements/issues etc.)