Wikibase Community User Group/Meetings/2025-08-28

Regular meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group.

• 15:00 UTC (16:00 London, 17:00 Berlin, 11:00 New York), 1 hour (ended 40min), Thursday 28th of August 2025
• Online meeting: https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession

Participants (Who is here?)

• Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry (WBUG / WikiFur.com)
• Peter F. Patel-Schneider

Regrets

• Ismael Olea (WBUG/Very Small GLAM)

Agenda

• Experiences with the newest (5.0.1) release of Wikibase Suite Deploy?
  • Some have reported issues with OAuth2 support: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZS2Q52OVP74GGVQW4GPN5C6VYJSEGROL/
• There was a request about federation endpoints on the mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ETA6FTOQKIJAE2QABXC75XIVGUC3SIMD/
  • Has anyone thought of instead of requiring SPARQL query federation to connect Wikibases for querying setting up a combined system, i.e., a SPARQL endpoint that contains information from multiple Wikibases so that SPARQL SERVICE requests are not needed? Blazegraph is likely not suitable for supporting this kind of federation, but another SPARQL engine such as QLever might be.
  • Where would be a good place to ask this?
    • Mailing list or Wikibase Community telegram group and/or SPARQL subgroup of the Wikibase Suite group link to which is in the description of the Community group
    • I'm looking at the group - where is the description? -- Click the title and it should show the group profile? -- Got it 👍🏼

Notes

• Suggestion by Wikibase Suite team for OAuth2 issue:

We follow this method for QuickStatements:

https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/af60b0d87b158feece83560614ac35aae3c94585/build/wikibase/default-extra-install.sh#L20

They need to be sure to set --oauthVersion <OAUTHVERSION>: OAuth version (1 or 2, default 1) option and probably others

Thank you! --GR