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Add a Wikibase instance to mediawiki.org

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Lectrician1 (talkcontribs)

@Emu @Gymnicus @Wd-Ryan @Rdrg109

Recently at Wikidata we created items for all of the Wikimedia developer teams under Wikimedia Product (Q86030252) and Wikimedia Technology (Q27983251) and sitelinked them to their pages on mediawiki.org. We also started creating items the team members of these teams and linking them to their teams. The intention was that they could be used to display the team members in the Template:Wikimedia Team Info infobox template without requiring the text to be manually added and would also then be queryable. I particularly wanted to generate a tree of all the Wikimedia teams and their developers with this data documented.

However, documenting data about Wikimedia is currently in a grey area regarding its notability on Wikidata. This is demonstrated by the recent deletion request to delete some of the Wikimedia developer items.

What would probably make more sense is for mediawiki.org to have its own Wikibase instance so that these development teams and their developer teams could be properly documented where they most-closely belong. That way we don't have to worry about notability issues on Wikidata.

Could this be done?

Emu (talkcontribs)
Wd-Ryan (talkcontribs)

Any other ideas of what we could add to the Wikibase instance? I like the idea of it.

Lectrician1 (talkcontribs)

We could document anything related to the Mediawiki tech stack! Mediawiki documentation and data from Template:Extension could use the Wikibase!

Wd-Ryan (talkcontribs)

This sounds great, count me in for extensively modeling everything about Mediawiki.

Bawolff (talkcontribs)

Tbh, im not really sure how mediawiki.org would benefit from this.

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