It's time - #WBUG has taken over! 🌍
Don't worry, no huge changes; but there's a new face behind the text, GreenReaper (https://w.wiki/9vL7).
As before, this account seeks to inform those using #Wikibase and #WDQS for their own #LinkedData projects - and is now run on behalf of the user group founded in 2018, whose members occupy the linked chat, forum and mailing list in our profile.
For official product Wikibase news from @wikimediaDE, see the new @Wikibase.
What do we do? Mostly, help each other! See our 2022 (https://w.wiki/9vKa) and 2023 reports (https://w.wiki/9vKY) for a better idea, or drop into Telegram or our meetings - the last Thursday each month.
We also seek to push #Wikibase forwards, most recently with development proposals for the #Wikidata Open Call for Software Collaboration: a call for better form-based entity creation - https://drive.google.com/file/d/10dymKaXA3g5Bm6jk730OvNERsJMFNPjp - and an extension for #OpenRefine reconciliation support with @wbstakeholders
While started by those self-hosting and developing on #Wikibase, many members now use #WikibaseCloud, identified in a 2023 survey as the preferred method of use by 50% of participants: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Summary_Wikibase_Suite_Survey_-_2023.pdf - no wonder, as it has #WDQS, #QuickStatements and #Cradle, and free maintenance. Some instances store tens or hundreds of thousands of entities: https://wikibase.cloud/discovery
As many issues are unique, Cloud has its own chat:
https://t.me/joinchat/FgqAnxNQYOeAKmyZTIId9g - and mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikibase-cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/
Wikibase Community User Group
