Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the past week: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

💫 WikidataCon begins today! Well we did it again... 9 sessions from lightning talks, presentations, panels and a workshop! Last chance to join us: w.wiki/EKXz All times stated are in UTC. #wikidatacon #wikidata #openknowledge

catching up with the @wikidata 13th birthday presents. Some really cool stuff there! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Thirteenth_Birthday/Presents_%26_messages #openscience

💫 WikidataCon continues as we head into November. Once again, we've crammed 9 sessions to our daily schedule before we start another round of Wikidata-powered games. Need the room-link? w.wiki/EKXz All times stated are in UTC. #wikidatacon #wikidata #openknowledge

💫 WikidataCon begins today! We have 9 sessions scheduled today, capped off, of course, by some Wikidata games. Want to join? Register for access: w.wiki/EKXz All times stated are in UTC. #wikidatacon #wikidata #openknowledge

🎃 WikidataCon 2025 online event is almost here! Join us tomorrow on All Hallows Eve; October 31 – November 2, for a weekend of Wikidata t̶r̶i̶c̶k̶s̶'̶n̶'̶treats. 🤖 Presentations from 6 program tracks ⚡ Lightning Talks (incl. a selection from GLAM Wiki 2025)

Happy Birthday, Wikidata! 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who joined our Presents & Messages call yesterday and made the 13th birthday celebration so special. 🎁 Watch the replay and browse all the community gifts people made: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

Every day, thousands of editors on #Wikidata provide open, reliable and trustworthy data to the world helping make technology more open and inclusive. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Wikidata has been recognized by the @DPGAlliance as a #DigitalPublicGood.

The day has arrived, Wikidata turns 13 years old! 🍰 🎉 What do you think the next 13 years has in store for Wikidata? 🎤 Tell us in the Presents & Messages Call! 🕔 Today, 17:00 UTC on BigBlueButton (access link here: w.wiki/FmFR) Leave us a message or add a present: w.wiki/FqaY 🎁 🎤 See you soon!

🎉 Wikidata is turning 13! 🎂 🎈 Join in the Festivities on our live celebration call 🎈 🕔 17:00 UTC 📅 October 29, 2025 🔗 Access link here: w.wiki/FmFR 👉 Other cool events around the world: w.wiki/FqZQ 🎁 Birthday Presents & Messages: w.wiki/FqaY 🎂💬🧑💻🎈 #Wikidata #WikidataBirthday #OpenData

We're hosting a Black Bibliography Project @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social Edit-a-thon tomor (10/29) at Alexander Library 12-3pm @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social. Refreshments provided. Come learn about linked open data and Black print culture! libcal.rutgers.edu/event/15446627

WikidataCon 2025 online event arrives soon, from October 31 - November 2. 📬 Please register to the event using this link: w.wiki/ELxb 📆 Event Page: w.wiki/EKXz ... Which sessions are you looking forward to? See you there!

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the past week: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

The session I am looking forward to the most for this #WikidataCon is the Wikidata4 Social Good panel with Jan Ainali, Jona Hölderle, Mateus Santos and Friedrich Lindenberg next Sunday. Join us to hear more about their great projects. Don't forget to register at www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:W...

Mohammed Abdulai of Wikimedia Germany has some exciting news to share about the upcoming 🎂 Wikidata Thirteenth Birthday! 🎁 #Wikidata #WikidataBirthday #DataCakeDay

This Week on Wikidata (20 October 2025): The program for WikidataCon 2025 is out -- have you seen it yet? Also, discover WikiLokal, a tool that uses your device’s location to find nearby Wikidata Items. 👉 Read the full update: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

Are you ready for WikidataCon next week? We can't wait to see you there! Check out the program and register today at: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:... #wikidatacon #wikidata #openknowledge

#WikidataCon, the conference dedicated to the #Wikidata community, is taking place on October 31 - November 2, online. You can check the program and register for the conference! See the scheduled Program: pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025... Register for the event: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:...

Wikidata supports reliable knowledge. These #WikidataStories improve access to information: AletheiaFact, a fact-checking platform, and Sangkalak, a digital catalogue for Bangla Wikisource. Explore here www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...#WikidataStories #KnowledgeEquity #OpenAccess

Did you miss our Q4 Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour? 💬 Catch up on the full conversation and see what the dev team has been working on: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida... A huge thanks to everyone who joined. We can’t wait to see you at the next one. Stay tuned for updates! 🙌

I have enabled QLever instead of Wikidata as an option for SPARQL queries on PetScan. QLever has a (slightly older?) copy of Wikidata, but the SPARQL queries run massively faster than on Wikidata proper. The usual prefixes are auto-added, but not all. YMMV. https://qlever.dev/wikidata […]

Did you miss our recent Webinar? Catch-up on the Wikidata Embedding Project session to see how Wikidata’s open, multilingual, and verifiable structured knowledge is powering the next generation of generative AI tools. ▶️ Playback: w.wiki/Fgo2 📊Slides: w.wiki/Fd6G #Wikidata #AITransparency #OpenAI

Two Wikidata events today! Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour - 16:00 ~ 17:00 UTC Join Wikidata Telegram for updates on happenings this past Quarter. More info: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida... and...

Here is what happened around Wikidata over the past week: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

On October 29th, Wikidata turns 13! Did you know: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13 represents Triskaidekaphobia: fear of the number 13. But we’re not scared — we’re excited! 🥳 Join us celebrating 13 years of community-powered knowledge on Wikidata 1️⃣3️⃣ #Wikidata #Wikidata13 #wikidatacon2025

🗳️ In July 2024, many of you took part in the Wikidata Community Survey. Many thanks to all for participating! 📊 The results are now live: w.wiki/FfMk 💬 Got thoughts or questions? Let us know what you think on the discussion page w.wiki/FfMn

Knowledge can be playful! #WikidataStories, such as Flashback Fiesta (a timeline card game), the Holonet Galactic Encyclopedia (mapping Star Wars lore), and Dicothèque (a Wikisource dictionary tool), demonstrate how open data sparks creativity. Explore: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

Listen to Wikipedia (Hatnote) turns real-time edits from Wikipedia and Wikidata into sound, a generative symphony of human knowledge in motion. Exactly the kind of nerdy thing I love. listen.hatnote.com#wikidata #Wikidata #DigitalArt #DataSonification #NerdJoy

Earlier this year, we invited contributors to share their #WikidataStories. From tools and apps to bots, maps, and knowledge-sharing — 30 projects showed the many ways Wikidata makes an impact.

Our article "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" is part of this new issue of @annbot.bsky.social See: doi.org/10.1093/aob/... Result of a great #collaboration @siobhanleachman.bsky.social @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social Heidi Meudt! #Wikidata #LOD

Week 40, 2025: What @wikidata album languages grew the most this week? Hassaniya Arabic speakers double their musical footprint!🥇🇲🇷🇲🇱🇲🇦🇸🇳🇪🇭🎉 📊 #wikidata 🎶🎵 #exmusica #hassaniyaarabic #لهجةحسانية #لحسانية

🚨 Join the next Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hours! 🕓 15 Oct 2025 · 16:00 UTC / 18:00 Berlin 💬 On Telegram: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... Hear updates from the dev team + bring your questions & ideas. See you there!

🧩 Developers who use Wikidata’s data dumps -- we want to hear from you! 💬 Your feedback will help us make data dumps easier and more reliable to use. 🕒 If you’re open to chatting, we’ll schedule a 60-min user interview and would love your insights! 👇 Sign up here 🔗 greatquestion.co/wikimediade...

Wikidata's vector embedding and MCP are now live, making 30M+ Items accessible for natural language search. Join the Oct 9 webinar to learn how the Embedding Project can help reduce AI hallucinations: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:...

Artists on AI+Data, an @Art+Feminism Coversation, partner with @Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Artists Nora Al-Badri and Michael Mandiberg will discuss structured data, AI and how a feminist internet could look. 📅 Join onsite or online: 8 October, 18:30–20:00 CEST 🔗 Register to join: zurl.co/Pv0aH

The Wikidata Embedding Project is now live! Making Wikidata’s structured, multilingual knowledge directly usable for generative AI applications to be built on and integrate into LLMs. Full announcement: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida... Public, freely accessible database: wd-vectordb.toolforge.org

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the past week! LOST, Protoknowledge, MixMatch and WDQS GUI fixes are some of this week's topics: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

Wikidata is one of the most significant repositories of open knowledge on the planet. Read this Stephen Harrison interview that explores how this open, volunteer-driven database became the infrastructure for global knowledge ➡️ www.stephenharrison.com/p/how-wikida...

Launching on 1 October, the new Wikidata Embedding Project offers semantic search across 30M knowledge entries, Model Context Protocol support, language support and open source alternatives to Big Tech #SemanticSearch #MCPSupport #OpenAI

Launching on 1 October, the new Wikidata Embedding Project offers semantic search across 30M knowledge entries, Model Context Protocol support, language support and open source alternatives to Big Tech #SemanticSearch #MCPSupport #OpenAI

Are you planning to host a celebration for Wikidata's 13th birthday but haven’t added it to the calendar yet? Join the party of ~40 events already scheduled, and add yours too: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Fun @wikidata query of the day: ~350 people who were married, then married the sibling of their previous spouse. https://w.wiki/FN5J

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the past week! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the past week. www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

As Big Tech locks knowledge behind paywalls, #Wikidata's 25,000+ contributors in 190 countries have built the world's largest free knowledge base. @LydiaPintscher tells @fastcompany.com how this open alternative powers projects globally, with no corporate gatekeepers: www.fastcompany.com/91391335...

📢 Community update! 📅 The WikidataCon 2025 Call for Proposals closed a few days ago, and we are now reviewing the many fantastic submissions. Speakers will be notified by email about the outcome of their proposal. Register for the event to receive updates: w.wiki/EKXz

A fabulous article by Tiago Lubiana, Wikimedian in Residence for @biodivlibrary.bsky.social, on the amazing work he completed during his time with BHL. #LoveBHL #Wikidata #WikiCommons #Wikipedia diff.wikimedia.org/2025/08/30/p...

So very pleased and proud to announce that our paper "Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills" has been published! #Wikidata #Bionomia #HiddenFigures acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

It's Monday and that means it's time to catch up on what happened around #Wikidata the past week: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

📢 The Call for Proposals for WikidataCon 2025 ends soon! 🗓️ The Call remains open until September 1st end of day (anywhere on earth) ⏰ If you have an idea but haven't finished it yet, don't worry...submit a draft and continue to work on it! 🌟 Submit proposal here: pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025...