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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 4h

This Week on Wikidata – 05 October 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights: 👉 www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Wikidata Weekly Summary 752 - ruins of a Chaper Khaneh, known as the world's first organised postal service.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s also a great opportunity to connect with fellow community members and discover what everyone’s been working on. Event details can be found here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Attendees can ask questions and discuss the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The next Wikidata & Wikibase office hour is scheduled for Wednesday, October 7. At the Wikidata & Wikibase online office hour, the development teams present what they’ve been working on over the past quarter.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, Wikidata has over 123 million data entities and counting. It's time to celebrate! Join the party by hosting an event for Wikidata's 14th birthday: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fourteen 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! 👀)

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We'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 🙏

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This 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...

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s also the perfect time to prepare a birthday present. Gifts can be anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community. #WikidataBirthday #Wikidata14 #opendata #technology

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wikidata 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...

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Lydia Pintscher @lydiapintscher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We 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... #Wikidata

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Biodeck - Card game @biodeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do 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

'Common (LC)' trading card featuring a Western Chorus Frog (Pseudacris triseriata), a small brown-beige frog with dark stripes, perched on a twig amid green moss. The card shows: class Amphibians, size 4 cm, habitat type Fossorial · Terrestrial · Aquatic, reproduction Oviparous, ATK and DEF not available.

Back of the Western Chorus Frog card, showing its classification (Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Amphibia, Order Anura, Family Hylidae) and specific traits: size 4 cm, diet Carnivore, habitat type Fossorial · Terrestrial · Aquatic, climate zone Temperate, hemisphere Northern, activity Nocturnal, peak sighting March, reproduction Oviparous, clutch size 616, IUCN trend Decreasing. Sources: GBIF, Wikidata, IUCN Red List, iNaturalist, trait databases. Image: Chia (Cory Chiappone), CC-BY-NC.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This 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...

The Main (or Grand) Post Office in Istanbul, Turkiye.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Spot a castle that's missing? Level up its Wikidata entry and watch it show up in the next refresh. 🗺️ Go explore: thecastlemap.com

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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.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New 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...

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Join us for updates, hands-on workshops on query rewriting, demo on the query rewriting tool and Q&A's with the dev teams. Sessions will repeat across time zones, all recorded for later or repeat viewing. Register: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event%3...

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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!

Wikidata Query Service Days event (save the date) - see post text for details

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New 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

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🎮 What game from your childhood do you want to make sure the world never forgets?

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Wikidata can help build a rich, connected ecosystem of knowledge about games, from titles and developers to platforms, genres and characters. Developers can use Wikidata’s open data to build apps and create new tools.” - Alan Ang, Senior Partner Manager at Wikimedia Deutschland.

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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

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This project helps centralize metadata for video games and developers, building an open, structured record of gaming history. Does Wikidata already know about your favorite game? Jump into WikiProject Video Games and add it yourself, every entry helps grow the world's open knowledge of gaming. 🕹️

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This week, we're joining gamescom, and there's no better moment to shine a spotlight on WikiProject Video Games! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

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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.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #745.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The underlying vectors are also available as a HuggingFace dataset:huggingface.co/datasets/phi...

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The May 2026 Wikidata dump now powers the database, and it does not stop there. We'll keep refreshing it on a recurring basis, so it never goes stale. Dive in through the web interface or the REST API. Find all the details on the vector database's wiki page: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The 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.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The underlying vectors are also available as a HuggingFace dataset:huggingface.co/datasets/phi...

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It depends on what you use it for. Keep in mind that all this is powered by donor money. The more commercial and the more large scale your use is the more we'd like you to either use your own copy or look at Wikimedia Enterprise APIs.

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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...

Ruins of a Roman aquaduct at Nicopolis, Wikidata Weekly Summary #745

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Share your thoughts in this 5 minute survey here: zurl.co/4XlSq Thank you for helping shape what comes next. The survey closes August 24, 2026 23:59 AoE.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What 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.

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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...

Female telegraphists in the Signals Office, Boulogne, France, 1919, photographed by Olive Edis (Q7087149), Public domain, Wikidata Weekly Summary issue 744

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Have you tried any of these tools? Which one is your favorite, or which would you like to explore next? Share your experience in the comments! #Wikidata #Community #OpenData #LinkedData #Wikimania

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Contributing 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:

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🔎 Have you spotted all five yet? Please let us know what's working, what's not at: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... Which WikiProjects you'd like to see added next ? Tell us in the comments 👇

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Have you spotted them yet? It's currently being tested with five WikiProjects — Music, Medicine, Datasets, Sum of all Paintings, and Elections — and appears when you're viewing an Item connected or related to them.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In June, we started testing the new 'WikiProjects' section of the 🛠️ Tools menu (on Wikidata).

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🎥 Want to dive deeper? Full panel discussion here😀www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWNg... 💬 What was your biggest takeaway from the discussion? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. #Wikidata #Community #OpenData #LinkedData #Wikimania #Wikibase

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🤖 The Wikimedia Foundation reports over half its traffic now comes from bots — raising the challenge of keeping knowledge open while protecting infrastructure from unsustainable automated load.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🔎 For many factual questions, querying structured data (like Wikidata) is cheaper, more efficient, and easier to verify.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🔗 GLAMs should host their own data on a Wikibase instance, not just Wikidata — Wikidata is a secondary/tertiary knowledge graph referencing existing sources, not an authority for original publication.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

📈 Uploading a dataset to Wikidata doesn't make it valuable on its own — it needs people to add references, update info, improve quality, and connect it to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🏛️ Many GLAM/memory institutions support open access for humans but are increasingly cautious about unrestricted AI use — citing lost attribution, missing context, and lack of reciprocity.

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Missed 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:

Key insights from a thought-provoking panel at Wikimania 2026

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