wikibaser

wikibaser

wikibaser provides a lightweight R interface to the MediaWiki Action API for working with Wikibase repositories and Wikidata.

The package aims to simplify common tasks such as:

• authenticating with a Wikibase instance;
• creating and editing Wikibase entities;
• uploading files to the associated MediaWiki repository;
• retrieving entities and file metadata; and
• supporting simple federation workflows between Wikibase instances and Wikidata.

The package is under active development.

Installation

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("dataobservatory-eu/wikibaser")

Example

library(wikibaser)

session <- wb_login(
  api_url = "https://example.org/w/api.php",
  username = "...",
  password = "..."
)

wb_upload_file(
  session = session,
  file = "P7101565_thumbnail.jpg",
  text = "Farmhouse (Deliņi farmstead)"
)

Status

Current development focuses on:

• authentication;
• MediaWiki file uploads;
• Wikibase entity operations; and
• simple federation tools.

Contributions, bug reports and feature requests are welcome.