I recently wrote a post looking at the history of the Wikibase “Federated Properties” feature. While at Wikimania 2025 the topic of federation came up a few times, particularly given the current discussions ongoing on the Wikidata project chat page including discussions about wikicite, and the recent Wikidata graph split. All the code for the…| addshore
The “Federated Properties” feature allows / allowed a local Wikibase instance to access and utilise properties directly from a remote Wikibase, primarily Wikidata. Its primary purpose i…| addshore
I wrote a post in February 2025 looking at what the Wikibase ecosystem (might) look like, according to the data that had at that point been collected on wikibase.world. Now that data has had some t…| addshore
There has been some recent chat once again on the Wikibase telegram groups around importing, and the best approach to import a large amount of data into a Wikibase instance. 2 years ago I started a little GitHub project aimed at profiling the speed of loading using the action API, and various settings, DB versions…| addshore
This is the fifth part of a series sharing Smithsonian Libraries and Archives’ work with linked open data and Wikidata. For background and overview of current projects, see the first several posts in more »| Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound