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New Wikibase Extension: Wikibase Export

By Jeroen De Dauw February 14, 2023No Comments

Export your Wikibase data via the new easy-to-use export page! Our latest Wikibase extension provides a configurable export page designed for less technical users. It supports filtering and grouping statement…

Automating Values in Wikibase

By Jeroen De Dauw May 3, 2022No Comments

You can now automate the creation of values in your Wikibase wiki. This is made possible by our latest Wikibase extension: Automated Values. In this post you will learn what…

Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase

By Jeroen De Dauw February 6, 20221 Comment

Importing a large number of Items into Wikibase can be a challenge. This post provides a high-level overview of different importing approaches and their performance. If you have 10 million…

Deleting all Wikibase Items and/or Properties

By Jeroen De Dauw September 17, 2021No Comments

Do you wish to start over in your Wikibase after some experimentation? You could reinstall the entire wiki, but perhaps you wish to retain some content, users, uploads or similar.…

Extended Date Time Format for Wikibase

By Jeroen De Dauw April 21, 20211 Comment

We are happy to announce the release of Wikibase EDTF, our latest Wikibase extension. As the name suggests, Wikibase EDTF adds support for the EDTF standard to Wikibase. EDTF stands…

Transferring Wikibase data between wikis

By Jeroen De Dauw December 27, 20204 Comments

Learn how to import Wikibase items and properties from one with into another. Transferring items and properties from one wiki to another is not that difficult if you know which…

Local Media Support for Wikibase

By Jeroen De Dauw October 5, 2020No Comments

You can now use media files from your wiki inside of Wikibase. We created a new data type for Wikibase that enables working with media files defined on your wiki. Previously,…

Semantic Wikibase Released

By Jeroen De Dauw September 3, 2020No Comments

You can now use Wikibase data in your Semantic MediaWiki with our new extension "Semantic Wikibase". Both Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki are extensions to MediaWiki that allow you to work with structured data within your wiki.…