Interoperability

“Sep 24, 2026, 10:14 PM”“How Can We Strengthen Wikidata and Wikibase Interoperability?”A long time ago, I set up my own Wikibase instance for experimental purposes. I wanted to get some hands-on experience defining all the properties I needed, entirely by myself — something that was difficult to do in Wikidata alone. That was my main motivation for installing a personal Wikibase instance back then: having my own properties and my own items, even if they were far from current Wikidata standards.As far as I can remember, I did not know how to make Wikidata and Wikibase interoperate at the time. Perhaps this feature is already being developed nowadays.Rather than waiting for such a feature, however, I decided several months ago to build it myself. Instead of forking Wikibase, I developed everything from scratch. Think of it as a “clean-room implementation” of Wikibase : Altilunium Panoply.A clean-room implementation is often described as a process in which one team analyses the original…