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

Wikidata turns 14 on 29 October 2026 🥳

🎂 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

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

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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! 🙌

Chart showing Wikidata album languages with the most growth. Week 14, 2026.

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

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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...

Birthdates, positions, length of tenure… facts often exist in Wikipedia articles but haven't been turned into structured data yet.

PoliLoom identifies and extracts data from government portals and other official sources and suggests matching Wikidata entities in a side-by-side interface.

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

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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

Coolest Tool Award logo by LGoto (WMF)

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...

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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?

Chart showing Wikidata album languages with the most growth. Week 10, 2026.

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

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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

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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...

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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...

Even GenAI uses Wikipedia as a source - Stack Overflow

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 Summary for the week preceding 23.02.2026. Click the link for all the news.

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

🌿 Wiki for Botanists: engagement through outreach
🌈Queer Memory: global queer history in Wikidata-powered timelines
🌍 Africa Wiki Women Mentorship: Wikidata intro + Minor vs Major edits

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

And of course 😘 to everyone building Free Software projects with Wikidata’s data.
Thank you for making open knowledge more accessible. Share links to your project in the replies.

#ILoveFS

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 (Paris) - the Call for sessions is open. Click the link for details.

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

🥳 Events and celebrations are happening across Europe, see the list here: fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/
#ilovefs #freesoftware

💕 “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