Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Presents
On this page, you can add a birthday present to the list, or leave a birthday messages. Presents can be anything celebrating Wikidata and the work of its editors, especially something that can be useful to the community: a script you just wrote, improvements to a tool, something visual, a poem... Please also join us for unveiling of the birthday presents together and playing some games online.
If you're looking for inspiration, see the presents of previous birthdays: 11th birthday, 10th birthday, 9th birthday, 8th birthday, 7th birthday, 6th birthday.
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Birthday presents
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- Tool: Lexica, a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels. Try here: https://lexica-tool.toolforge.org/ 🍰🎁
- Extension: WOCI is a multilingual extension that enables you to search for any item or word that you come across while reading or browsing online. It's an extension that makes Wikidata's data easy to retrieve and access.
Install on Chrome browser or Firefox browser - Wikidata Map: Generated new maps showing density of Wikidata Items as of 2024-10-07 as well as diffs comparing them to 2023-06-26 maps, and uploaded them to Commons. The tool used to generate the maps was updated to have a slightly clearer UI and improve the docs on how to add new data to the tool. Presentation about updating the Wikidata map in October 2024.
- Another Wikidata Map, that is explorable in different zoom levels with data from October, 2024. If there is enough interesent, I might update the map regularly with additional funcionality.
- A cheatsheet about SPARQL (File:SPARQL Mémento.pdf). This is a beta version of the cheatsheet in French. After the proofreading phase of the beta version, an English version will be available.
- Animated Wikidata background in plain CSS. Use on your Wikidata related websites, presentations, or wherever you like. (code)
- 12th Wikidata Birthday popper in html, css and javascript. Use on your Wikidata related websites, events, or wherever you like. (code) - Ranjithsiji (talk)
- 12th Wikidata Birthday falling gifts in html, css and javascript. Use on your Wikidata related websites, events, or wherever you like. (code) - Ranjithsiji (talk)
- File:Wikidata 3D model.stl, a 3D model of the Wikidata logo that you can print to put on your desk.
- @wmde/wikibase-rest-api is an API client for the Wikibase REST API which is automatically generated using its OpenAPI document.
- The Tabular Online Validator, a major update to the current ShEx validator that is expected to get integrated into the existing validator soon.
- Ordia games, various small games using the lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
- mlscores : Multilinguality Calculator for Wikidata items, including properties, with scores representing the percentage of labels available in a given language.
- Talikak (তালিকাক, Clapping Crow), an alternative to Listeria, and more.., developed by Mahir256, see a Bangla Wikisource page utilising the tool to create a list of female writers, for example, among thousands of other pages.
- Map of Accused Witches in Scotland site version TWO now launched, 5 years after the Wikidata map launched in Sept 2019 and developed by 5 student interns (Emma, Maggie, Josep, Claire and now Ruby) the Scottish witch trials can be explored in place AND time with filters for accusations and a new Histropedia timeline developed by Navino Evans too. Stinglehammer
- Invitation to test the new beta version of QuickStatements 3.0
- Live Map of Wikidata Recent Changes - A map interface to view live Wikidata edits. developed by Gnoeee and Athulvis. (Source code)
- 12 years of Wikidata - zooming in on its scholarly content — a talk given on the occasion. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 01:58, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reviving Everythingisconnected Wikidata Game. Welcome to play and create new levels. EICGame :) - Ranjithsiji (talk)
Birthday Messages
[edit]- Wikidata to the Tyap Wikimedians community has been a place to document items which ordinarily would be found nowhere on the worldwide web of course notable to our community but unknown to the larger world. For this, my community would love to see Wikidata wax stronger year after year with more contents for human consumption. Cheers to knowledge preservation! Happy 12th Birthday, Wikidata!!!!!!!!!!!! Kambai Akau (talk) 20:54, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Umar Faruk Yunus (talk) "As Wikidata turns 12, I reflect on the art of giving back, where each contribution leaves a lasting track. In every edit, every shared piece of knowledge, we etch our names in the golden thread of open data, gifting the future with boundless access to information. Wikidata is not just a platform, but a bridge—connecting communities, ideas, and change across the globe. Here's to 12 years of spreading knowledge, and to the many more years ahead where together, we build a future where knowledge is free, accessible, and shared by all."
- J 1982 (talk) 17:24, 29 October 2024 (UTC) Have a happy late October, everyone. Congratulations to Wikidata for 12 fantastic years.
- Happy birthday, Wikidata! I recognize your contribution to making information more meaningful and linked as you commemorate another year of enabling free, structured and available data for anyone. Many more years of cooperation, creativity, and influence are ahead of us! King ChristLike (talk) 10:10, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Happy birthday to Wikidata and the community around it! Wikidata was already amazing to me when I started working with it about 2 1/2 years after it started, and it's only gotten more powerful and exciting in the years since. I'm enthusiastic about where we're going, here's to many more years of Wikidata! ArthurPSmith (talk) 13:19, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- A huge congratulations to the entire Wikidata community for over a decade of relentless dedication to open knowledge and structured data. Your contributions have created a powerful, interconnected repository of knowledge that powers so many projects worldwide, making information accessible and linking ideas across languages, disciplines, and communities. —Sunkanmi12✉️
- Oh, missed the actual Birth-Day, October 29. Happy belated birthday to Wikidata, and best wishes for the development team and our community! Thanks everyone for keeping our mission on making the WMF projects better... and in fact, making the Internet better! 🎉🎂 --Wolverène (talk) 05:26, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, on this special day of Wikidata. My shout-out to all wikidata contributors for our dedication to contributing to open knowledge through wikidata, and happy @12 wikidata!🎉🎉🎉Macocobovi (talk) 05:26, 03 November 2024 (UTC)
Message from the Wikidata development team
[edit]Today is Wikidata’s 12th birthday! 🎉 Over the years we’ve built something remarkable together. Let’s take a look back at the past year and look ahead to what’s next.
Over the past year we passed the incredible milestone of 2 billion edits, making Wikidata the most edited Wikimedia project of all time. This milestone was reached with about 24,300 editors per month, collecting and maintaining data in 113 million Items and 1.35 million Lexemes, building out a knowledge graph for everyone one edit at a time. Thank you to everyone who joins us in building the best knowledge graph and in helping give more people more access to more knowledge.
With that size also come challenges. The past year was very much marked by coping with growth on both the social and technical side. We moved forward with splitting the data in the Query Service, released the mul language code and other measures to help us better handle the current size of Wikidata. At the same time, more and more specialized projects are popping up in the Wikibase Ecosystem, which by now is a real alternative for data that lies outside Wikidata’s notability criteria or wants its own space for other reasons, such as Qichwabase, wikifcd and the Rematriation Project.
Addressing the technical and social challenges of Wikidata’s growth will continue to be a topic for the coming year as well. Some of it may involve rethinking what work we focus on in Wikidata, such as outlined in Jean-Frédéric’s recent blog post. We will also strive to bring the Wikibase Ecosystem closer together via federation and work towards feature parity between Wikidata and other Wikibase instances where that makes sense.
Another major focus of the past year was reuse. Wikidata’s data exists in order to be used to build great applications, to make the Wikimedia projects better and so much more. Wikidata now has a shiny new REST API, a big step on the way towards making Wikidata’s data easier to access. We’ve also started figuring out Wikidata’s role in a world with generative AI and Large Language Models and started a project to make our data more accessible in this context to ensure that, also going forward, people will have access to well referenced, trustworthy and up-to-date data. Developers who build with Wikidata’s data now have their own space in Wikidata with a spiffy new developer portal that holds all the important information they need and provides inspiration about what’s possible with Wikidata’s data. We’ve also seen great new applications being developed like WikiFlix, which you really should give a try if you haven’t already. Your next movie night will be sorted!
Over the next year we’ll continue to improve how developers access Wikidata’s data, further build out the integration between Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects and see Wikifunctions make further progress and integrate Wikidata more to build the basis for Abstract Wikipedia.
Wikidata wouldn’t exist without its people. From Wikimania to the Data Modelling Days to the Leveling Up Days to the Lexicodays and more, it’s always inspiring to meet so many of you at events around the world. I hope you’re able to join one of the birthday parties in so many places around the world and look forward to seeing many of you at one of the next events like the Data Reuse Days.
Happy 12th birthday, Wikidata! Thank you to everyone who makes this project what it is. Here’s to many more 🥂
Lydia and the development team