Paulina

Thanks to our Outreachy intern Nurah Wakili, we're gradually releasing some new features in Paulina related to creating and editing author and work items on Wikidata. You can help us test the new features by going to our website, logging in with your Wikimedia account and editing. Please let us know if you find any bug or issue: https://paulina.toolforge.org

A tutorial in Telugu language about Wikiflix and Paulina: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiflix_and_Paulina_Tools_Telugu_Tutorial.webm

La herramienta Paulina es parte de un esfuerzo mayor para mejorar la información sobre el patrimonio cultural de América Latina, y del Sur Global, en Wikidata, y así facilitar el descubrimiento y el acceso a la cultura en Internet. Si quieren involucrarse en estos esfuerzos para reducir huecos de conocimiento sobre patrimonio cultural en Wikidata, pueden sumarse al wikiproyecto "Dominio Público en América Latina": https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Dominio_P%C3%BAblico_en_Am%C3%A9rica_Latina

Many people ask about the story behind the name ‘Paulina’. When the project began, we called it Data Tools for the Public Domain. It was a long, quite boring name, so we thought about renaming the tool after an author whose works were in the public domain. Paulina Luisi was a Uruguayan feminist author and doctor from the early 20th century, and we thought her name was a good option.
Of course, you can learn more about Paulina Luisi, and access her works, visiting Paulina: https://paulina.toolforge.org/author/Q7154948

Paulina is available in 15 languages thanks to the contributions of dozens of volunteers. Would you like the tool to be available in your language? You can help translate it: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/paulina/

This year Paulina is participating in @outreachy@hachyderm.io, an internship program that aims to increase the presence of underrepresented communities in the open source world. Around 20 people applied for our project, which involves adding functionality to edit Wikidata directly within the Paulina tool. The developer selected for the internship is Nurah Wakili, from Nigeria, who is doing an great job and is blogging about the experience. We recommend reading her latest post: https://nunucodes.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/midpoint-project-progress-integrating-wikidata-editing-into-paulina/

Paulina is a free software project and its development is collaborative. The code repository is available on Wikimedia's GitLab: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/paulina
We also maintain a page with the technical documentation: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Paulina/Software_Documentation
We welcome contributions and suggestions for new features. We also encourage you to report bugs or suggest improvements on our issue tracker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/7320/

One of Paulina's most useful features is that, thanks to #Wikidata, it allows you to find out the copyright term for any country. In the top menu, you can click on the "Countries and Terms" option to access a list of countries with their respective copyright terms: https://paulina.toolforge.org/countries/

Clicking on a particular country will give you access to more information and statistics. We plan to add much more info to the country pages in the coming months to help you discover local works and authors.

Paulina es fácil de usar, pero les compartimos dos tutoriales para sacarle el mayor provecho:
1. Una introducción a las funciones básicas de la herramienta: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Introducci%C3%B3n_a_la_herramienta_Paulina.webm
2. Un tutorial sobre cómo usar Paulina para identificar brechas de información en Wikidata y aportar datos de obras: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uso_de_Paulina_y_Wikidata_para_identificar_brechas_de_informaci%C3%B3n_y_aportar_datos_de_obras.webm

Paulina allows you to explore cultural heritage in a variety of ways. You can search for authors (like Mary Shelley https://paulina.toolforge.org/author/Q47152) by name, nationality, gender, and copyright status as a creator; or creative works (like the film Metropolis https://paulina.toolforge.org/work/Q151599) by title, type of work, and country of origin.
Tip: if you leave the search field empty, you can apply filters to obtain lists of authors or works (see img).
In the future we plan to improve existing filters and add new ones!

Did you know that Paulina won the Wikimedia 2025 #CoolestToolAward for the most innovative tool?

You can watch the video announcing the award, which also explains how Paulina works. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coolest_Tool_Award_2025_Paulina.webm

Thanks to the award, we'll participate in this year's #WikimediaHackathon, where we'll be working collaboratively to add new features to Paulina.

Check out the list of tools that have won the Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award to learn about other wonderful tools: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/Full_history

Si quieren saber más sobre qué es Paulina, cómo funciona y en qué estamos trabajando para mejorar la herramienta, pueden ver la presentación que dimos hace unos meses en la Semana de la Cultura Libre 2025, organizada por @ccuruguay@mastodon.uy: https://archive.org/details/taller-paulina-datos-y-dominio-publico

If you want to learn more about Paulina, how it works, and what we're working on to improve the tool, you can see the presentations we gave a few months ago at:
#WikidataCon 2025: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WDC25_-_Paulina-_A_Cool_Tool_for_Exploring_the_Public_Domain.webm
#Wikimania 2025: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paulina,_a_Wikidata-based_web_tool_for_cultural_heritage.webm

¡Hola, Fediverso! Esta cuenta compartirá noticias y datos interesantes sobre Paulina, una herramienta web basada en Wikidata para descubrir autores, acceder a obras culturales, aprender sobre el dominio público y contribuir con datos sobre el patrimonio cultural.

Paulina es sostenida por @wikimedistasuy@mastodon.uy @datauy@mastodon.uy @ccuruguay@mastodon.uy y @articaonline@mastodon.social

Pueden disfrutar de la herramienta en https://paulina.toolforge.org
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Hello Fediverse! This account will share news and interesting facts about Paulina, a Wikidata-based web tool for discovering authors, accessing cultural works, learning about the public domain, and contributing data on cultural heritage.

Paulina is supported by @wikimedistasuy@mastodon.uy @datauy@mastodon.uy @ccuruguay@mastodon.uy and @articaonline@mastodon.social

You can enjoy the tool at https://paulina.toolforge.org
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