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

January

• (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

• (Feb 11) 🤝 Wikibase Live Session (notes)

March

• (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

• (Apr 29) 🤝 Wikibase Live Session (notes)

May

• (May 27) 🤝 Wikibase Live Session (notes)

June

• (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

• (Jul 24) Voting took place in the contact election.
• (Jul 29) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.

August

• (Aug 26) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.

September

• (Sep 30) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.

October

• (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

• (Nov 25) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.

December

• (Dec 30) 🤝 Online meeting of the user group.