This Week on Wikidata - 2nd March 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights!
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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...
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
Weekly Wikidata Summary for Calendar Week 05
This Week on Wikidata – 3rd February 2026. Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights!
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🌍 Africa Wiki Women Hour
🥐 Wikimania 2026 (Paris) - now calling for sessions
🧰 Wdlist - manage your own list of Wikidata items
...and don't miss Suzie Wood’s talk on 'Making the Best of Partially Translated Pages', in the Translations track (Room K.3.401), Sunday afternoon.
🔗 fosdem.org/2026/schedule/eve...
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
Also; updates on Wikidata developments, incl. mobile editing, Wikibase, and the work being done at the intersection of AI and Wikidata.
This hands-on session is led by Camillo Pellizzari (long-time Wikidata editor) and Alan Ang (Senior Partner Manager, Wikimedia Deutschland).
Learn how Wikidata connects with archives, explore editing tools, and take part in collective editing. All experience levels are welcome!
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...
The latest Weekly Wikidata summary is out - click the link.
This Week on Wikidata – 26 January 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights!
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Recently, a team at Wikimedia Deutschland decided to give it some love and add a couple of community requests;
+ adding the ability to override the image currently displayed
+ you can hide specific Properties locally
Full details and use instructions on the project link above!
Want to use it on your Wiki?
🖌️ On Visual Editor, select ‘Template’ and then ‘Databox’
📝 Source Edit: add text {{Databox}} to the top of the page
Doesn’t require any special settings, just install the Module and Template and it’s good to go.
Includes images, maps and data is updated automatically.
Install instructions: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Module...
Hacked together during the 2018 Wikimedia Hackathon (Barcelona) by User:Tpt and User:Tobias1984 who recognised that many smaller Wikis need a hand populating and maintaining knowledge on their Wiki.
📊📦 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.
The weekly Wikidara roundup - a collection of Wikidata and Wikibase-related videos, blogs, papers and news from the Wikimedia Projects and beyond
This Week on Wikidata (sorry for the late post!) – 19 January 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights!
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Join us for
✔ An intro to Wikidata
✔ How to fact-check using the MCP, large language models (LLM) & semantic search
✔ Build your own small fact-checking pipeline
#Wikidata #FactChecking #OpenKnowledge #LLM #GenAI #Workshop
⏰ 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
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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
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🎂 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! ♥️
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