Wikibase Community User Group/Reports/2021
In 2021 the Wikibase Community User Group elected a new primary contact and drew together seven hours of programming from its members and third-parties for WikidataCon 2021, while continuing its primary activity of supporting Wikibase users through 📧 its mailing list and 💬 Telegram - the most active venue of discussion outside of meetings.
Monthly online meetings took place throughout most of the year - see the linked notes for details of discussions. No project or other grants were solicited from WMF for the activities of the group.
Activities
editJanuary
edit- (Jan 6) 💬 wikibase-docker does not start anymore - Elasticsearch/CirrusSearch index generation failure, found to be a disk space shortage (task T271290)
- (Jan 29) 💬 creating new items in Wikibase with a supplied ID - discussion of need to transfer and restore items separate from database backup/restore, and custom entity IDs (task T271723)
February
edit- (Feb 11) 🤝 Wikibase Live Session (notes)
March
edit- (Mar 23) 💬 Message regarding OpenRefine raising awareness of a Wikidata volunteer having applied for a WMF grant-funded project to add Structured Data on Commons support to OpenRefine
- (Mar 25) 🤝 Wikibase Live Session (notes)
April
edit- (Apr 29) 🤝 Wikibase Live Session (notes)
May
edit- (May 27) 🤝 Wikibase Live Session (notes)
June
edit- (Jun 9) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.
- (Jun 24) 🤝 Wikibase Live Session (notes)
- The 2021 contact election opened with the self-nomination of candidates.
July
edit- (Jul 24) Voting took place in the contact election.
- (Jul 29) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.
August
edit- (Aug 26) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.
September
edit- (Sep 30) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.
October
edit- (Oct 29-31) 🤝 WikidataCon 2021 - group members Lozana and GreenReaper curated the Wikibase track, featuring seven hours of presentations by developers and users (18 sessions), including a meeting of the user group (notes, recording)
November
edit- (Nov 25) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.
December
edit- (Dec 30) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.