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Regular meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group.

Participants (Who is here?)

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  • Valerie WMDE
  • Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry (WBUG / WikiFur.com)
  • Christopher V
  • Elwin
  • Clair K (Superraptor123)

Agenda

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  • Wikibase UEG Reporting - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2024_Report
    • Gender question: "Which pronouns do you prefer to use?"
    • More meetings to add in past meeting notes
    • Explain in report that many contributors come from Wikidata
    • User group didn't organise Hackathon but we did send people, and ~45 at federated query workshop, which we can claim as we promoted in Telegram and members there are part of the community (check list of attendees)
    • Knowledge Equity research from user base
    • Note: Reach out to Lozana who was not able to make this meeting, send draft
  • Report of search bar not aliging with lower content and the dropdown widget
  • Mix 'n' match is stuck loading with manual sync (Wikidata
  • How to include a language code from Wikidata to
  • Wikibase.Cloud (qxp and sjo requested? west fresian [fy]) Needed to create labels and aliases [Clair: it would also be nice to have access to "mul"/multilingual]
    • Discussion on how chess pieces and bass symbols should have their Unicode representation put in the label or alias
  • Not discussed in meeting:
    • Clair: generally speaking, are there funding opportunities for individual Wikibase.Cloud instances available through the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikimedia Deutschland?
    • Also Clair: is there maybe a way to move discussion from Telegram to Discord or a similar application wherein different channels can more easily be sorted? I know it would require more moderation, but may help with community-building, as Miraheze uses Discord, for example?
    • Also also Clair: I need to make a ticket for this, but there is a glitch with adding lexemes, wherein the fields don't load properly after adding 1-2 lexemes on Google Chrome (not present on Firefox). Essentially, after that, one has to clear their cookies to be able to continue adding lexemes (the issue doesn't exist for items or properties)

Chat

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Mentioned earlier: task T329096 

16:18
Elwin says: Hey Valerie, great... it is really hot in Innsbruck.   I have a question for the agenda: How to include a language code from Wikidata to Wikibase.Cloud 

16:21
Valerie says: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329096 
Fellow Jitster says: Xibe 

16:24
Elwin says: qxp 
Fellow Jitster says: sjo 
GreenReaper says: mul 

16:27
Clair Kronk (she/her) says:hello! 

16:32
Clair Kronk (she/her) says: not sure why video isn't working
Clair Kronk (she/her) says:yes I can! 
GreenReaper says: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2025_06_26 
GreenReaper says: https://aff-reports.toolforge.org/year/2024 

16:34
Clair Kronk (she/her) says:(also so so sorry-- there's construction in the office so I'll try to mute as much as possible) 

16:35
Valerie says:all good 😃
GreenReaper says: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Navbox has the list of meeting notes that I finished compiling from Etherpad for 2024 

16:39
GreenReaper says: How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects?
How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects?
How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement?
How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? 

16:42
Clair Kronk (she/her) says: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_projects (for reference) 
Elwin says: The storm was just here, probably it is there now 😂😮
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