Risks and Technical Debt

Technical debt is mainly tracked on Phabricator on the Wikidata/Wikibase tech focus board (opens new window), which includes Wikibase Client tech debt.

Risks

The following sections are an incomplete (!) list of risks, ordered by priority.

Wikibase Client functionality depends on the Wikibase Repository Database's availability

In its current implementation Entity Data Access works by directly accessing the Wikibase Repository's database from Wikibase Clients. This means that no meaningful Entity data can be embedded into Wikitext-generated content at the time of the Repository database's unavailability. It also means that problems with the Repository database can cause surface on Wikibase Clients, see e.g. T195520 (opens new window). This risk is mitigated by reducing the load on the Repository database e.g. through caching, and thorough error handling to avoid causing fatal errors.