Wikibase Community User Group/Meetings/2024-07-24

Regular meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group.

• 15:00 UTC (16:00 London, 17:00 Berlin, 11:00 New York), 1 hour (ended ~30 minutes), Thursday 25th July 2024
• Online meeting: https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession

Participants

• Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry (WBUG / WikiFur.com)
• TuukkaH
• Nikki
• Sadik

Agenda

• New release of Wikibase Suite deployment
  • Traefik proxy and ACME certs to support HTTPS
  • Anyone tried it yet? What was your experience?
• Result of voting for the Wikimedia Movement Charter, and next steps:
  • Wikibase Community User Group/2024 Movement Charter discussion
  • Minutes of 2024-07-08 WMF meeting (Mike and Victoria are community trustees)
  • Resolution:Draft Movement Charter and next steps
  • Product and Technology Advisory Council/Proposal
• New incremental option for remote Wikibase backups using the wikiteam software
  • Available in the v4-main branch

Notes

• A big point of discussion was whether PTAC would provide direct grants for technical projects i.e. Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research & Technology Fund similar to WMDE's "Open Call" rather than just strategic direction, GreenReaper plans to apply and if interviewed will raise that question, other than that suggests looking to WMDE or perhaps better outside the movement to national bodies or institutions who may be interested in Wikibase; also noted that the form is unreliable over browser restarts, so save your submissions.

Chat

16:02
nikki says:hi! 
16:03
GreenReaper: Hey there! 
Aadik: Hey Nikki 
GreenReaper: Just been waiting to see if others will attend. 
GreenReaper: That was Saadik, maybe he wanted to fix his name - hard to type on mobile! 
GreenReaper: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2024_07_25 
16:06
Sadik: Sorry it was my network 😦 
16:06
GreenReaper: Yeah, I imagine the infrastructure there is a bit spotty. 
GreenReaper: Looked into it for content distribution purposes myself! 
16:08
TuukkaH says: Did you say that PTAC is planning to provide grants? Is there a public message about this? 
16:13
GreenReaper: We should probably mention in the notes what I said for this but for the benefit of the chat log the answer was "not in the current messaging" 
16:22 
TuukkaH: Yes, it will be interesting to hear WMDE's next steps as well 
TuukkaH: Regarding PTAC in the Wikimania hackathon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368774 
16:28
GreenReaper: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_and_Technology_Advisory_Council/Proposal 
Sadik:Thanks for sharing 
16:29
nikki: never trust a website to save what you wrote 😛