A Declarative Approach to Wikibase Population [C. Debruyne]

This thesis proposes a declarative approach to populating Wikibase, enabling users to describe what data should be created or updated in a Wikibase instance rather than prescribing how to perform each step. The goal is to design and implement a rule- or mapping-based method that translates high-level specifications into reliable edit operations (e.g., item creation, statement insertion, reference and qualifier management), with attention to idempotency, provenance, and error handling. The work will also include benchmarking and stress testing on realistic datasets, along with developing concrete use cases that demonstrate how the approach simplifies and scales Wikibase ingestion workflows in practice.