Posted on 2025-06-10

Wikibase Faceted Search Released

Filter and explore your Wikibase data via our new MediaWiki extension!

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of a faceted search experience for Wikibase. The new Wikibase Faceted Search extension enhances the standard search page with filtering capabilities and user-friendly UIs.

Demo

Try out the extension yourself on the MaRDI Portal.

Capabilities

Filter search results by Statement values via the facet UI or by Item type via the tabs.

You can build complex queries by selecting multiple values for the same property or different properties, including range queries, conjunctions (AND) and disjunctions (OR).

List of publications matching the search results filtered by author and classification

Combine full-text search with structured search on Statements. Such combined queries are not supported by WikibaseCirrusSearch or by Blazegraph/SPARQL. Combining structured and full-text search is ideal for wikis with "display pages" that provide a user-friendly view on Wikibase Items via rendered wikitext.

Customize your facet UI and configure Wikibase Faceted Search via the on-wiki configuration UI. No server access or PHP configuration needed.

JSON-based configuration UI

The extension is mobile friendly.

Mobile view of the facets UI showing filtering of publications by author

Learn more via the Wikibase Faceted Search documentation.

Open Source

Wikibase Faceted Search is free and open-source software developed by Professional Wiki. We released it under the GNU GPL v2+ license. Contributions are welcome!

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