Wikidata

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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award

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 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibase_GraphQL
What are you going to build next?

This Week on Wikidata - 9 March 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights!
👉 Read the full report here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2026_03_09

This Week on Wikidata - 2nd March 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights!
👉 Read the full report here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2026_03_02

What happens when a knowledge graph of Wikidata’s scale meets vector search infrastructure?

Philippe Saade, AI/ML Project Manager at Wikimedia Deutschland, was invited to speak with @Stack Overflow and explore this topic, and how the Wikidata Embedding Project is building a vector database of over 30 million Items.

Listen to the interview or read the transcript here:
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/20/even-genai-uses-wikipedia-as-a-source/

Thank you to Ryan Donovan and Stack Overflow for the invitation!

This Week on Wikidata – 16th February 2026. Get the latest updates and community highlights!
👉 Full report here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2026_02_16

🌿 Wiki for Botanists: engagement through Wikidata workshops

🌈Queer Memory: explore global queer history through Wikidata-powered timelines
🌍 Africa Wiki Women Mentorship: Wikidata intro + Minor vs Major Wikidata edits

Introducing PULA: a new tool to explore and contribute words across languages.

Search for Lexemes, view translations, and when logged in, contribute descriptions, translations, or audio pronunciations. Built to support language discovery, especially for underrepresented communities.

Developed by Eugene Egbe & Fongoh Martin with Goethe-Institut Kamerun.
👉 https://zurl.co/caxIb

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.

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

Wikimania 2026 (Paris) is accepting session proposals!
Got a Wikidata story to tell?

Are you building, researching, or working with Wikidata, Linked Open Data or knowledge graphs?
Share your story and help spread the word on how Wikidata helps connect the world through open knowledge.

🗓️ Submit by: March 1st (anywhere on Earth)
ℹ️ More information:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/01/27/call-for-sessions-wikimania-2026-is-coming-to-paris/

#WikimaniaParis
#Wikimania2026

💕 “I Love Free Software Day" 2026 is fast-approaching!

Built by people who share their time, skills, passion and care, they make software free for the world to enjoy. On Saturday, February 14th, we join the @Free Software Foundation Europe (#FSFE) in celebrating them!

🥳 Events and celebrations are happening across Europe, see what’s happening near you: https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/

#ilovefs

This Week on Wikidata – 9th February 2026. Get the latest updates and community highlights!
👉 Full report here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2026_02_09

🌍 Wiki Loves Africa: Custom upload funnels
🧼 Data Cleaning for OpenRefine
🔍 Wiki Clarity checks sitelinked Wikidata items for missing article information

This Week on Wikidata – 3rd February 2026. Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights!

👉 Read the full report here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2026_02_02

🌍 Africa Wiki Women Hour
🥐 Wikimania 2026 (Paris) - now calling for sessions
🧰 Wdlist - manage your own list of Wikidata items

🌐 Wikimedia Deutschland at @FOSDEM 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...

...and don't miss Suzie Wood’s talk on 'Making the Best of Partially Translated Pages'
Room K.3.401, Sunday afternoon.
🔗 https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QCNWZT-making_the_best_of_partially_translated_pages/

#FOSDEM #opensource #WikimediaDeutschland #opendata

Intro to Wikidata + Archives training
An Art+Feminism event, in partnership with Wikimedia Deutschland

🗓 29 Jan, 15:00–18:00 UTC
💻 Online (Zoom, English)
🔗 Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/n1sUZcJ0QqeFbag10xMtcw
All experience levels welcome!

Hosted by Camillo Pellizzari (long-time Wikidata editor) and Alan Ang (Wikimedia Deutschland).
Learn how Wikidata and archives connect, try collective editing and tools. Get development updates on mobile editing, Wikibase, and the work being done between AI & Wikidata.

This Week on Wikidata – 26 January 2026: Catch up on the latest updates and community highlights!
👉 Read the full report here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2026_01_26