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🎉 Wikidata Reference Validator Tool As a birthday gift to Wikidata, the Wikidata Reference Validator helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.
🎉🎂 The ArchiveExternaLinks user script As a birthday gift to Wikidata, the ArchiveExternaLinks user script automates the archiving of all external links present in an item, whether they appear in statements, references or identifiers. For each external link, the script automatically adds an archive link [archive], similar to what is done on Wikipedia for web sources cited in references.
🎉🎂Wikidata TimetrailAs a birthday gift to Wikidata, the Wikidata Timetrail website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations. See Khajitdadddy for examples(code)
Two images to visualize the process of disentagling items.
CommonsFinder a new iOS app that, among other things, has an interactive map where you can explore wikidata items that have geo-coordinates and also view their linked commons categories and images that depict that location (P180).
Relator2 is an improved version of the relator script. It makes it easier to deal with people and their family relations on Wikidata. Example(needs login to work properly)
CommonsSearch is a Wikidata user script. On relevant items without image, it runs a Wikimedia Commons search for relevant images.
Happy Birthday, Wikidata! Today is Wikidata's 13th birthday. Time to celebrate and take a look at some highlights of the past year and what's ahead.
The three big topics of the past year were reuse, sustainability and the Wikibase Ecosystem.
Reuse: Wikidata's data is there to be reused, to build upon - both inside and outside the Wikimedia movement.
Wikidata's data continues to be used more and more inside the Wikimedia projects to make Wikipedia articles better, to provide information on Commons category pages about the category's topic and much more. Did you know that more than 90% of Wikidata's editors are also editing in at last one other Wikimedia project? The Wikidata and Sister Project Days had great content for everyone interested in integrating Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects more.
Sustainability: As Wikidata is growing we are putting more effort into ensuring that growth is sustainable, both on the technical and human side.
On the technical side the graph split happened, moving Items describing scholarly articles into their own Query Service instance and thereby cutting the amount of data that the main Query Service needs to hold in half. This has bought us time to move away from Blazegraph to a more sustainable system. Additionally, we have worked to optimize database tables to reduce their size and that work will continue.
On the human side we have worked towards making it possible for more people to contribute, specifically people on mobile devices. We are making it possible to edit statements from your phone. This will go live over the next year and you can watch it take shape right now, test it and provide feedback. In parallel we want to make sure that people find their way and place in Wikidata to contribute productively without increasing the burden on patrollers, admins and other editors. Stay tuned for bringing more visibility to Wiki Projects as well as the newcomer homepage.
Wikibase Ecosystem: There are now over 1800 Wikibase instances out there, making even more data available and connecting it to Wikidata and many other places. It's amazing to see the breadth of topics they cover, from food composition data to French Enlightenment novels to the transatlantic slave trade to language data to authority control data for a national library and many more. Our work here now focuses on helping everyone get clarity on what the right place in the Wikibase Ecosystem is for their data and community - whether that’s Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud, or a Wikibase Suite instance. In addition we want to make it easier for people to build their community and maintain their dataset in their own Wikibase instance and still be closely connected to Wikidata. The next step here is making it easy to use Items from Wikidata in statements on another Wikibase instance, so they don't need to maintain their own list of countries for example.
The world is noticing: Unlike its big sister Wikipedia, Wikidata often works behind the scenes, quietly powering applications and services that millions of people rely on every day, often without realizing it. That makes the two recognitions this year even more meaningful:
The European Open Source Award for Advocacy and Awareness for me, but really for everyone who contributes to Wikidata as a source of trustworthy, verifiable, linked open data for the world
The recognition of Wikidata as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance, to signal to the world that Wikidata is important infrastructure for digital self-determination and collaboration for the greater good.
Today Wikidata is more important than ever as an open source of trustworthy, verifiable, linked open data. Thank you everyone who continues to collect and maintain the world's knowledge in Wikidata and across the Wikibase Ecosystem! Here's to many more years of community and open knowledge for all!
Happy birthday Wikidata. Thirteen (13) years of free knowledge in structured formats is no mean achievement. Keep growing as we stay around to keep supporting your growth into an adulthood soon.Alhassan Mohammed Awal (talk) 04:02, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Happy 13th birthday Wikidata! I truly recognize and celebrate your global impact as a free and open knowledge base. Cheers to more years of reliable data, connections and community growth. King ChristLike (talk) 20:16, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Happy Birthday Wikidata. It's amazing to see what the global community has built together—a truly universal database that empowers researchers, developers, and knowledge-seekers everywhere. Cheers to all the contributors --Houss 2020 (talk) 18:24, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Two images to visualize the process of disentagling items.
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