This year I have again received a grant from the WMF to attend to the annual Wikimedia Hackathon, this year is in Istanbul. I’m very grateful to them.

Since 2024 I’m very interested in the Wikibase platform since we are using it at LaOficina and is a main topic for the DHwiki WG. I’m not going into details but, from the very beginning, my first thoughs of involvement in the hackathon are related with Wikibase. Specially the need of «productization» and reduce entry barriers for Wikibase adoption, at least in my personal experience. Lately I’ve been thinking in very specific goals I think could be done in the hackathon:

• T391815 Wikibase Request for Comment: essential minimalist ontology
• T391821 Wikibase Request for Comment: an inventory of Wikibase related artifacts
• T391826 Wikibase Request for Comment: Wikibase Suite full multimedia proof of concept configuration
• T391828 Wikibase Request for Comment: a method for portable wikibase gadgets

The point is, I can’t do this alone. I have beend working on most of these things for months, but still are finished. Many different skills needed, lack of experience on some of them, etc.

So, the goal of this post is to call for action other attendants at the hackathon to join to work on them. The most relevant required skills (from my lack of skills point of view) are about MediaWiki integration, configuration and programming. For T391828, the most important is to be familiar with MediaWiki gadgets and for T391815, some practical experience in setting up ontologies in Wikibase.

All the practical results will be offered to the Wikibase developers for their consideration.

If you are interested please reach me in Telegram or at your preference. I also would love to set up a Wikibase zone in the hacking space for people working with Wikibase, with these or other tasks.

So, I’ll see you soon in Istanbul o/

At LaOficina we are currently working on a project to digitize family photographs and one of the challenges is the correct traceability of intellectual property. In this case we have encountered the difficulty of knowing the exact conditions of the received material, a situation that is not new and which is already addressed by the RightsStatements vocabulary, which includes 12 terms that are used, among others, by the Europeana community. Therefore, it is obvious that we need to add this vocabulary to our Wikibase Suite instance. By the way, as an exercise, I have taken the opportunity to compose it from scratch as an independent OWL ontology. It is very simple, but probably it has some conceptual flaws. If it is useful to someone, please use it without restrictions: righstatements-ontology.ttl

If you find something wrong please reach me.

A la sazón del día internacional del turismo, Raul Jimenez Ortega ha organizado un evento Geo Developers en Internet al cual me ha invitado a hablar de lo que hemos aprendido en estos años acerca de la relación de Wikipedia, el patrimonio y el turismo. Espero que os guste.