How to (not) lockdown a Wikibase?

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How to (not) lockdown a Wikibase? (Talk, 15 min, In-person, Accepted)

Speakers: Lukas Günther · Start: 2026/11/12 10:35:00 · Conference: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2026

Searching for open access points to Wikibase data and how to lock them down in a robust and secure way For different use cases, we needed to lock down access to some of our Wikibases. But is this even possible in a good way? For different use cases, we needed to lock down access to some of Wikibase instances hosted at the TIB. But is this even possible in a good way?

In this talk I cover our search for open access points to Wikibase data and how we locked them down: Action API, REST API, EntityData, SPARQL, dumps, and Special pages. We found some solutions to match our needs, but are they really secure and robust? The talk shares our work in progress and remaining open questions.