Wikibase options

Options for configuration

• site name
• site URL
• wikibase installation
• sending email
• locate password file elsewhere? not in plain text?
• copyright
• Wikibase-docker example
• Readme there for multiple services
• LocalSettings
• settings generator
• Someone customizing the wikibase docker compose

Main services

• Wikibase
• WDQS
• WDQS backend
• QuickStatements

Features

Gadgets

"The Gadgets extension provides a way for users to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other wiki users provide."

• See Extension:Gadgets instructions on how to install

• See Special:Gadgets on wikidata
• See MediaWiki:Gagdgets-definition on wikidata
• Check Special:Version on wikidata to see if gadgets are installed.

EasyQuery

• EasyQuery.js gadget, needs to be updated for the query endpoint, at the very least. Can be done manually to start.

Customizing the menu

• "Customizing the menu"
• edit the sidebar, go to "/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar"
  • MediaWiki:Sidebar

** Special:NewItem|New item
** Special:NewProperty|New property

Logo

• "Adding a Custom Logo"

User rights and namespaces

• user rights
• page specific user rights
• custom namespaces

Constraints handler

• wikibase constraints work (meaning when you go to an item page, the constraints show up; will need to test myself)

Links on Wikibase installs

• "Hide link boxes on the right hand side of item pages"
• "Supporting links to external vocabularies"

Scripting extensions

• Scribunto
• ParserFunctions
• test for ParserFunctions: this should NOT display code.
• test for Lua here.
• Include the following three extensions for easier editing.
• Wikidata client and Lua

Embed videos

• EmbedVideo extension

(redundant with the Widgets extension, possibly)

Query prefixes

• defined default prefixes `pdiot`, `pdio`, etc, and fix the autocomplete accordingly.

Widgets

• Widgets

Questions

• Is it possible to have two namespaces for items?

See also

• Wikibase registry main page
• Wikibase for research infrastructure
• notes on wikibase