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.

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! 👀)

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 🙏

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...

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...

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

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

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...

🏰 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.

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...

📅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!

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

🎮 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

🎮 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.

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

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.

🗞️ 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...

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.

🗞️ 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...

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:

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

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:

🗞️ 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...

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

🏆 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.

This 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

Connect 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

This 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...

Missed 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! ✨

This 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.