This Week on Wikidata – 18 May 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Embedding Project, vectors, vector search… if you've been nodding along quietly while wondering what these terms mean, this thread is for you! What is a Vector? A concept — a word, a sentence, a Wikidata item — represented as a long list of numbers. Like coordinates on a giant map of meaning.

🤖 AI + Wikidata - how AI can serve open knowledge: PoliLoom: large-language models (LLMs) extract politician data from Wikipedia and compare against 100 Million Wikidata entities - gaps and missing information are presented for human-verification. More: everypolitician.org/about/contri...

This Week on Wikidata – 11 May 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

🎉 WikiProject Days 2026 is coming. June 19 to 21 online. We will talk about using WikiProjects to connect, model data, and improve quality. Sessions on bringing visibility, creating guidelines, and more. 💡 Propose a session by May 26 or register. 🔗 www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event_t...

This Week on Wikidata – 4 May 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

I've just released a huge update to Wikitrivia: the web game all about putting historical events in the right order. All powered by @wikipedia.org and @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social 🫶 Check it out here: wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com

What did the Wikidata community get up to this week? Let's find out. www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Catch up on everything that happened in the Wikidata world this past week. www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

🎂 Save the date! Wikidata turns 14 on 29 October 2026 🎉 Whether you want to host a meetup, run a workshop, or just join the fun, start planning your birthday event now. 🔗 w.wiki/LCJY 🌍 More details coming soon. Stay tuned! #Wikidata14Birthday

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

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

Week 14, 2026: What @wikidata album languages grew the most this week? It's been a minute, but the Hawaiians are back on top! 🥇🇺🇸🎉 📊 #Wikidata 🎶🎵 #exmusica #hawaiian #ʻŌleloHawaiʻi #polynesianpride #honolulurockcity

This Week on Wikidata – 07 April 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

EveryPolitician.org has released a handy tool to fill gaps on political data in Wikidata... introducing PoliLoom. 👉 Full blog post: opensanctions.org/articles/2026-03-24-poliloom 🗓️ Demonstration: 02.04.2026, 13:00 CET

How do we model the world in a way that’s faithful to complexity but still useful for builders? That’s the heart of ontology work in Wikidata. If you’re ready 2 dive deep in, the Wikidata ontology course with Peter & Ege is now open for applications. 🔗Apply here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Following our earlier beta release for String and Entity ID datatypes, we're happy to announce that mobile statement editing now supports all datatypes. You can edit any statement directly from your mobile device, just like on desktop.🎉 Please test it and share your feedback here w.wiki/HNK6

This Week on Wikidata – 30 March 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

This Week on Wikidata – 23 March 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

This Week on Wikidata – 16 March 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

Wikidata relies on hundreds of cool and useful tools and they deserve their time in the limelight. You can now nominate your favorite one for Wikimedia's 2026 Coolest Tool Award! Learn more about the award and nomination process at meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cool...

Attention app builders! 👷 Wikidata now also offers a GraphQL endpoint. It is ideal for integrating simple queries that don’t need the full power of SPARQL into your application. You can learn more at www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida... What are you going to build next?

Week 10, 2026: What @wikidata album languages grew the most this week? The Galicians make a massive leap, leaving everyone in the dust. 🥇🇪🇸🎉 📊 #wikidata 🎶🎵 #exmusica #galician #linguagalega #vigorockcity

I've been working on data models for #Wikidata type specimen items & structured data for #WikimediaCommons specimen images. This is part of my WiR & is a collaboration with Brodie Satherley from Auckland Museum. See www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... #Wikidata #NaturalHistory #TypeSpecimen #DataModel

This Week on Wikidata - 9 March 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

This Week on Wikidata - 2nd March 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

What happens when a knowledge graph meets vector search infrastructure? Philippe Saade (Wikimedia Deutschland), spoke with @stackoverflow.blog.web.brid.gy on how the Wikidata Embedding Project is building a vector database of over 30 million Items. Interview here: stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/2...

Wikidata Weekly – 23 February 2026: The latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida... Highlights: 📑 WikiProjects ⛷️ Ski, 🇿🇦 NPO: South Africa, 🏗️ Chantiers 📜 Notability Policy: 2nd round! 🌐 EveryPolitician.org, OpenSanctions & Wikidata

This Week on Wikidata – 16th February 2026. Get the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

Wikidata would not be possible without the ton of Free Software projects it runs on. Thank you to all the communities and maintainers, who built them and improve them every day. ♥️ to you on I Love Free Software Day! You make the world go round and help us share open knowledge.

Wikimania 2026 - Call for Sessions! Building, researching, or working with Wikidata? Tell the world how Wikidata connects the world through open knowledge at Wikimania. 🗓️ Submit by: March 1st (anywhere on Earth) ℹ️ More information: wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki... #WikimaniaParis #Wikimania2026

💕 “I Love Free Software” day 2026 is fast-approaching! Built by people who share their time, skills, passion and care with the world, they make software free for the world to enjoy. This Saturday, February 14th, we join the Free Software Foundation Europe (#FSFE) in celebrating them!

This Week on Wikidata – 9th February 2026. Get the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida... 🌍 Wiki Loves Africa: Custom upload funnels 🧼 Data Cleaning for OpenRefine 🔍 Wiki Clarity checks sitelinked Wikidata items for missing article information

This Week on Wikidata – 3rd February 2026. Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida... 🌍 Africa Wiki Women Hour 🥐 Wikimania 2026 (Paris) - now calling for sessions 🧰 Wdlist - manage your own list of Wikidata items

Visit Wikimedia Deutschland at @fosdem.org 2026! Say hi to members of the Software Engineering department, at the Digital Public Goods Alliance booth Building H, stand 14, 10 - 11 am CET, both days. #FOSDEM #opensource #WikimediaDeutschland #opendata

Join the next Art+Feminism event in partnership with Wikimedia Deutschland:  Intro to Wikidata + Archives training session 🗓 29 Jan, 15:00–18:00 UTC 💻 Online (Zoom, English) 🔗 Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This Week on Wikidata – 26 January 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

📊📦 Databox is a lightweight, fully automated infobox system powered by Wikidata. With just one word {{Databox}}, editors can add a structured infobox to their article, perfect for kickstarting new article creation or enhancing an existing one.

This Week on Wikidata (sorry for the late post!) – 19 January 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights! 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

⏰ Tomorrow: fact-checking workshop w/ Philippe Saadé (Wikimedia Germany) and @DataTalks.Club 📆 20 Jan 2026 | 🕟 16:30–18:00 (UTC+1) 👉 Register: luma.com/7fs5v7os

Did you miss our first quarter 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! 🙌

The future of knowledge is yours to protect. #Wikipedia25 Donate now ➡️ donate.wikipedia25.org

🎂 Happy birthday, big sister @wikipedia.org 🎉 For 25 years now you’ve helped people understand the world better, one article, reference, and edit at a time. Here’s to many more years of sharing knowledge together, be it triples or prose! ♥️ wikipedia25.org/en #Wikipedia25 @wikimediafoundation.org

⏰ Fact-checking workshop w/ Philippe Saadé (Wikimedia Germany) and @DataTalks.Club 📆 20 Jan 2026 | 🕟 16:30–18:00 (UTC+1) 👉 Register: luma.com/7fs5v7os

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

Week 2, 2026: What @wikidata album languages grew the most this week? A good start for islanders in the new year, but none could beat the Maltese.🥇🇲🇹🎉 📊 #wikidata 🎶🎵 #exmusica #maltese #lingwamaltija

learned a little sparql to query wikidata and satiate a curiosity: a graph of all the programming languages and what they influenced query.wikidata.org/index.html#%...

Mobile statement editing on Wikidata is now in beta 🎉 1. Enable in Preferences --> Beta features 2. Test on Q4115189 (mobile view) 3. Share feedback: w.wiki/HNK6 Supports String & Entity ID types. More soon!

📣 Seeking experienced Wikimedia developers and technical contributors! Apply now for the Northwestern Europe 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon, taking place: 🗓️ March 12 - 14, 2026 | 📍 Arnhem, the Netherlands 🇳🇱

It's the first Wikidata Weekly Summary of 2026! Catch up on the first updates and community highlights of the year. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...