Wikibase Community User Group/Meetings/2025-07-31

Regular meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group.

• 15:00 UTC (16:00 London, 17:00 Berlin, 11:00 New York), 1 hour, Thursday 31th of July 2025
• Online meeting: https://bbb.wikipedia.de/rooms/c4h-7q4-xlf-zmq/join

Participants (Who is here?)

• Valerie WMDE
• Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry (WBUG / WikiFur.com)
• Clair (superraptor123 / lgbtDB)
• Jan Ainali
• Elwin Huaman
• Ismael Olea (WBUG)

Agenda

• Current funding opportunities for: education, tech development, AI, democracy, digital rights, Europe, WANA, global:
  • Erasmus plus, deadline 1 Oct
    • Link to application: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-guide/part-b/key-action-2/small-scale-partnerships
    • Link to Telegram group where Wikimedia Affiliates give peer-to-peer support for Erasmus+ applications: https://t.me/+I-kEkbL9kH8zMDk8
  • CERV call on democratic transition, (re-)building and strengthening society - deadline: 1 October 2025
    • Link to call: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/cerv/wp-call/2025/call-fiche_cerv-2025-citizens-rem_en.pdf
  • Horizon Europe calls funding research and innovation on AI - deadline: 2 October 2025 - for example:
    • Assessment methodologies for General Purpose AI capabilities and risks
    • Software Engineering for AI and generative AI
    • Link to call: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/wp-call/2025/wp-7-digital-industry-and-space_horizon-2025_en.pdf
  • Imminent’s Fund for language technology innovators - deadline: 15 October 2025 - #language, #tech, #machine learning, #global
    • link to call: https://imminent.translated.com/apply-for-your-grants#subject-language-economics
    • Applicant: individuals and organisations from anywhere in the world
    • Project budget: $ 20.000
    • Deadline: 15 October 2025
  • Digital Rights Fund for WANA countries - rolling evaluation of proposals - #content moderation, #digital rights, #WANA
    • WANA countries
    • Link to organisation & open call: https://smex.org/
  • In USA some departments have lost ~50% funding so looking at applying to more, but lack of cover for incidentals (lighting, maintenance staff, etc.)
• Demo: How to Wikibase :)
  • See link to download presentation: https://zenodo.org/records/15828659
• Demo: Surprise surprise!
  • https://wikiba.se has a new look and video
• Note on WMF Board candidate shortlisting process and result

Chat

16:01
Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry: Meeting notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2025_07_31

16:06
Clair: Can we post links to the applications/instructions in the Etherpad?

16:10
Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry: I wonder, will we see a ukraine.wikibase.cloud or similar, and what data would it cover? 🤔

16:12
Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry: David L might be interested there but perhaps not quite his area.

16:13
Clair: Thank you so much Valerie!

16:37
Clair Kronk (she/her): https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2025_07_31 

16:44
Anon: Last try at recording locally... 

16:45
Clair Kronk (she/her): there is a dance-themed Wikibase it seems! https://dancing-digital.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page 

16:53
Valerie: brb 

16:57
Elwin: Are we talking again about CRADL? 
Anon: I need to leave for my next meeting. Thanks for today! 
Clair Kronk (she/her) says: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-WikibaseQualityConstraints 👍
GreenReaper: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378743 - work on it for Wikibase.cloud 

16:58
Clair Kronk (she/her): You can import the constraint entities required automatically using "php maintenance/run.php WikibaseQualityConstraints:ImportConstraintEntities.php | tee -a LocalSettings.php" (per https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-WikibaseQualityConstraints)