Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 18hFourteen years ago, a group of twelve people in Berlin laid the foundation for what is now the world's largest free knowledge graph. (Think you know your Wikidata history? Take a look at the photo below and see how many of these twelve people you can name in the comments! 👀) 110
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We're researching interoperability between Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud, and Wikibase Suite. Your input would help. 👉 Survey (5 to 10 min, anonymous): wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/LOD-Interope... Thank you for your time 🙏wikimedia.sslsurvey.deLOD-Interoperability-Migration 010
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This Week on Wikidata – 21 September 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 010
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Wikidata turns 14 on October 29!🎂 14 years. Over 120 million data items connected. Over 560,000 editors. Are you ready to celebrate? Join the party by hosting a celebration event. Over 20 events are in planning already. Add yours too: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 111
Reposted by WikidataLydia Pintscher @lydiapintscher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026We are making the Wikidata Query Service better. As part of this we will be switching its backend from Blazegraph to QLever. Join us for the Wikidata Query Service Days next month to learn more about what's changing: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Q... #Wikidatawikidata.orgEvent:Query Service Days 2026 - Wikidata 022
Reposted by WikidataBiodeck - Card game @biodeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Do you know about the daily challenge? 1 card, 8 questions: the same challenge for everyone! Make the fewest mistakes while being the fastest, and win the crown plus your name in the hall of fame! Yesterday's daily challenge card biodeck-tcg.com #biodiversity #wildlife #TCG 121
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This Week on Wikidata – 14 September 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 000
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026🏰 8,131 castles. 149 countries. One epic interactive map built on open data! Castlemap pulls the data straight from Wikidata, adds photos from Wikimedia Commons and stories from Wikipedia, and lays it all over a basemap built on OpenStreetMap data. 101
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026New tools, brand new bots, discussions, and events - all wrapped up in one place for you! This weeks Wikidata Summary is ready for you, learn more about what the Wikidata community built, discussed, and discovered: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 011
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026📅Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) Days 2026 — Oct 17–23 (Co-organized by Wikimedia Deutschland + WMF's Wikidata Platform team) WDQS is migrating from Blazegraph to QLever. If you run maintenance queries or maintain tools/services on it, this affects you! 100
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New tools, active discussions, and community highlights, all wrapped up in one place for you! Dive into this Weeks Wikidata's Weekly Summary to learn more about what the Wikidata community built, discussed, and discovered: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... #wikidata #opendata #community 000
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026🎮 Ever wonder what happened to all the games you grew up playing? That's exactly why Alan Ang took the stage at gamescom to talk about the need for game preservation and their impact on society. #Wikidata #gamescom #opendata 101
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026🎮 Games have always brought us together, they connect us, teach us, instill values in us and build entire communities around a shared love of play. 140
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the past week: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 000
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The Wikidata vector database just got refreshed, and it's built to keep getting fresher. Tap into it and start building: the open knowledge community can access it and build applications right on top of Wikidata through this publicly available vector database. 140
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 17/08/2026🗞️ This Week on Wikidata – 17 August 2026. Catch up on the latest updates, tools and community highlights. Read the full report here 👉 www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 000
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026What kind of content do you want to see more of? Use cases? New features and product releases? Tutorials and how-tos? Community spotlights? Help us understand what would make you want to follow, engage, and share. 111
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 10/08/2026🗞️ This Week on Wikidata – 10 August 2026. Catch up on the latest updates, tools and community highlights. Read the full report here 👉 www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 022
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Contributing to open Knowledge isn’t just about adding data to Wikidata. It’s also about building and using tools that make structured knowledge easier to create, explore, and reuse. Here are some of the amazing tools showcased at Wikimania: 120
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In June, we started testing the new 'WikiProjects' section of the 🛠️ Tools menu (on Wikidata). 100
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Missed any Wikidata sessions at Wikimania? Here are some key insights from the thought-provoking panel "Bridging Institutions, Wikidata, and Generative AI: From Data Silos to Shared Infrastructure" moderated by @Shani Evenstein Sigalov, PhD at Wikimania Paris: 100
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026🗞️ This Week on Wikidata – 4 August 2026. Catch up on the latest updates, tools and community highlights. Read the full report here 👉 www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 010
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the past week: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 011
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 25/07/2026🏆 Lexica, a Wikidata tool, has won the Coolest Tool Award at Wikimania 2026 in Paris! Editing Lexemes on Wikidata means learning concepts like Senses and Forms before making even a small edit — tough on mobile or for newcomers. 131
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This Week on Wikidata – 20 July 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... #wikidata 000
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Connect with the #Wikidata community at #Wikimania Whether you're a new contributor, editor, researcher, developer, GLAM professional, or open knowledge enthusiast, join any of these sessions. 🇫🇷💙 Will you be there, Paris or online? wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026%3A... #Tech #Community #OpenData 030
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 13/07/2026This Week on Wikidata – 13 July 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 100
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Missed our Q3 Wikidata + Wikibase office hour? 📝 The full transcript is up now — catch up on what the linked open data (LOD) team's have been building: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... Thanks to everyone who joined the conversation. See you at the next one! ✨ 020
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This Week on Wikidata – 6 July 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... Depicted: The Brussels Packet. Packet boats/ships are light-to-medium sized vessels mainly used for ferrying mail and freight. 000
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 01/07/2026🚨 Join us for the next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours ✅Time: 16:00 UTC | 18:00 Berlin 8th July 2026 ✅Where? Wikidata Telegram chat: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... The development team will present what they've been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions. 000
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This Week on Wikidata – 29 June 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 010
Reposted by WikidataMagnus Manske @magnusmanske.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026Massive improvements (both UX/UI and codebase) for the TABernacle tool: tabernacle.toolforge.orgtabernacle.toolforge.orgtabernacle.toolforge.org 021
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Want to catch up on the WikiProjects Days 2026 sessions? The 📑 presentation slides and 🎬 video recordings are now available. 👉 www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event%3... #Wikidata #WikiProjectsDays2026 110
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 23/06/2026This Week on Wikidata – 22 June 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 101
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Day 3 and the final day of WikiProjects Days. We're closing with a strong lineup: marine taxonomy, live bug triage, and a deep look at the state of the tools useful or missing for WikiProjects: 🐠 14:00 — Who is who in marine taxonomy 🐛 14:30 — Bug Triage Hour: WikiProjects 110
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Join us for the last part of day 2's schedule for the WikiProjects Days 2026. Here's what's left to cover today: 🗂️ 18:30 UTC / Wikimedians for Data Organization and Quality User Group ✏️ 19:00 UTC / Let's improve a WikiProject page live! 210
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 20/06/2026We're returning from our break and settling in for some excellent sessions! Today's programme is packed — from ontology to onboarding to tools, there's something for everyone : 🕸️ 13:00 — WikiProject Ontology Needs You 🫵 110
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 20/06/2026WikiProjects Days 2026 continues. Here's what's on for Day 2 (Part 1) (all times are listed in UTC): 🌿 10:00 — Modelling, crosswalking, and creating documentation for natural history holotype specimen items 🔧 10:30 — How do you find what needs fixing in your WikiProject? 100
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Today's the day! 🎉 The Wikidata WikiProjects Days 2026 kicks off this afternoon — three days of sessions, showcases, and community connection. Not registered yet? There's still time — www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event%3... 100
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 18/06/2026What helps #Wikidata's data actually mean something? 🕸️ The ontology — a structure of classes, instances, and relationships underneath it all. 100
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 17/06/2026⏰ Wikidata WikiProjects Days 2026 is this weekend — June 19–21, online! On Sunday at 17:00 UTC: a group discussion on onboarding new contributors to WikiProjects: What do newcomers need? What's currently missing? What are some examples of effective onboarding we can learn from? 100
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 16/06/2026WikiProject participants often ask: “How do I find what needs fixing?” 🛠️ Many maintenance issues are already in the data—but turning them into useful clean-up lists is still hard. It usually takes the right tools and queries! This Saturday (🕥 20 June, 10:30 UTC)... 100
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The WikiProjects Days 2026 showcase - this Friday, 19 July, 18:00 UTC, will highlight the exciting work being done by WikiProject contributors! Here's a teaser: 110
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This Week on Wikidata – 15 June 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights. 👉 Read the full report here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... 000
Reposted by WikidataMagnus Manske @magnusmanske.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026If you find yourself bored, consider that there are almost 4000 films on @wikidata that were published in the US before 1930 but have no copyright status annotated (hint: #publicdomain ) w.wiki/RF4W 013
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This 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... 020
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Embedding 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. 110
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 12/05/2026🤖 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... 164
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This 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... 011
Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 08/05/2026🎉 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... 2153