Wikibase/Wikibase.cloud/First steps

Log in to your admin account

When you created your Wikibase, you received an email with account details. This is your admin account, and it’s important to check that you can log in to manage things.

• Once you’ve created a Wikibase on wikibase.cloud, open it in your browser by clicking on the home icon.
• On the top right, open the dropdown under “Anonymous” and click “Log in”.
• For security, you’ll need to create a new password after you log in with the one you received by email.
• Your admin account is ready to go!

Create a main page

Your main page is the face of your Wikibase, the page everyone who logs in or comes to visit will see. Consider putting some basic information and guidance here, using a style that matches your project aesthetic. You might also include helpful links and even some queries. If you need some inspiration, check out Beyond Notability’s main page.

Add a logo

Put your wiki's logo in your Wikibase settings .

Create your wiki's terms of use

Inform the contributors and users of your Wikibase about the terms of use for the content you publish there. These terms are meant to be published on your wiki’s Project:Copyrights page, which is linked on every entity creation page such as “New Item” or “New Property”. Just click on the (probably red) link that reads “Terms of use”, then add your license statements and your intentions for the content of your Wikibase. If you need some inspiration, check out LinguaLibre’s terms or MediaWiki’s own copyrights page.

Create an imprint

Since Wikibase.cloud is hosted in Germany, you need to create an imprint , a legally mandated statement of ownership and authorship that contains information about the site's publisher.

Add your initial data

Before you begin, take some time to think about how you want your data to be modeled. You can manually enter data using “New Item” or “New Property” on the left hand bar, or import more data at once using any of tools covered on our Creating and deleting data page, such as QuickStatements.

View your data using the Query Service

• On the left-hand menu click on QueryService (yourwiki.example.org/tools/quickstatements).
• Try writing your first SPARQL query.
• When querying Wikibase, be aware of how prefixes work. Elements prefixed with wd/wdt refer to data on Wikidata . To query the data on your own Wikibase using prefixes, use something like these examples:
  • PREFIX yw: <http://yourwiki.example.org/entity/>
  • PREFIX ywt: <http://yourwiki.example.org/prop/direct/>
  • PREFIX ywref: <http://yourwiki.example.org/reference/>
  • PREFIX ywval: <http://yourwiki.example.org/value/>

Look at examples

Check out some Wikibase examples to help you further model your data and grow your Wikibase.

Familiarize yourself with your tools

Make sure to look at all the tools at your disposal in your Wikibase’s Special:Pages page (yourwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special:SpecialPages) to explore all the features your Wikibase has to offer.