Wikibase Community User Group/Meetings/2025-04-24
Regular meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group.
- 16:00 UTC (16:00 London, 18:00 Berlin, 12:00 New York), 1 hour, Thursday 24th of April 2025
- Online meeting: https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession
Participants (Who is here?)
[edit]- Valerie
- Z. Blace
- Olea
- Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry
- Kanishk Pachauri
- Elwin Huaman
- TuukkaH
- Clair Kronk
- fnielsen
Agenda (10min per topic)
[edit]- FAQs: where are they stored? who is compiling them and updating? Some are on https://forum.wikibase.world since a while but semi-ignored by many chat participants and WMDE
- Official documentation mostly on MediaWiki wiki but attached discussions are not so feasible for Q&A
- write down link to forum on this page to direct people there
- Call for action at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025
- General thoughts on Hackathon
- DHwiki Working Group activity
- https://www.dariah.eu/activities/working-groups/dhwiki/
- contacts are David Lindemann and Gustavo Candela. Gustavo is also in the board of Wikimedia Spain
- WMDE's ability to practically support third-party developers (and deployers?)
- w.r.t. REST API for lexemes by developer task T329096#10743987
- Desire for adoption of hexagonal architecture mentioned with task T329096#10646995
- https://wbstakeholder.group/
- Later link from Telegram (much discussion on 25 April 2025): mw:Wikibase/Suite-Contributing-Guide
- New UK requirements for online harms and child safety - impact on WB.cloud?
- e.g. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/statement-protecting-people-from-illegal-harms-online and https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/statement-protecting-children-from-harms-online - extraterritoriality applies due to use by UK users (may need to write risk assessments that may be requested, nominate named representative...)
- Wikimedia Foundation Universal Code of Conduct
- But does this align with all the things that are illegal, that are meant to be protected from children, etc.
- Forwarded to WMDE laywer for consideration, other hosts may have to consider
- Move to https://framatalk.org/ jitsi!
- To be looked into after the meeting
Notes
[edit]- Project: https://internet-in-a-box.org/
- Community contributions as developers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329096#10743987 (framework, guidelines)
- Forward to legal: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/statement-protecting-people-from-illegal-harms-online
