Wikidata:Tenth Birthday/Presents

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Wikidata is turning 10! #WikidataBirthday Distributed birthday events in October 2022



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...

If you're looking for inspiration, see the presents of previous birthdays: 9th birthday, 8th birthday, 7th birthday, 6th birthday.

Birthday presents

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  1. Music from Yomi!
    This is music dedicated to the wikidata 10th year anniversary celebration by Yomi
  2. A contest aiming to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − Tenth Birthday/DACH Culture Contest ~ Wikimedia Austria (Q18559623) & Wikimedia Deutschland (Q8288) (Results will be announced on the birthday!)
  3. ATLAS Author disambiguation has been finished in time for the 10th birthday, thanks to Author Disambiguator - over 2.5 million author (P50) statements for almost 900 published papers.
  4. The Mismatch Finder now has a random mode to make it easier to get mismatches to review as well as a large amount of new mismatches between English Wikipedia and Wikidata. - from the development team and Mike Peel
  5. Sitelinks to redirects are now possible under certain conditions. - from the development team
  6. Results of Filmi music datathon organized by West Bengal Wikimedians User Group (Q28859468)
  7. CDKDepict gadget to depict the chemical formats SMILES, SMARTS and CXSMILES, based on Magnus Manske's work. Try Polymethylpentene (Q132059). More about CXSMILES here. (talk) 08:18, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Wikidata now includes a (hopefully) complete and up-to-date list of government ministers for every country in the world --Oravrattas (talk) 08:50, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Data work on MeSH descriptor ID (P486) to include all main MeSH terms (D-numbers). Twitter thread. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:10, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  10. A short introduction to the ways in which WD:SOAP works with the Dutch library for art history (called RKD). I created this project page to explain the various properties for this institute and how we use them for paintings Wikidata:WikiProject RKD. Feel free to sign up or just start matching with one of the "RKD to Match" lists. Jane023 (talk) 17:21, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Birthday Messages

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Message from the Wikidata development team

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Happy 10th birthday, Wikidata!

It’s now been a decade since the first edit on Wikidata. That feels like a long time and at the same time it flew by in the blink of an eye.

This year Wikidata has grown to 100 Million Items. That is 100 Million Items containing data about the world. 100 Million Items that help us learn something new about the world. In addition, we now have over 700,000 Lexemes – data about words – to help us not just understand the world through data but also to give us the basis for talking about it. However, the much more important number is 12,300: the number of people who collect and maintain that data, advocate for open data in institutions, help others contribute to Wikidata in workshops, build tools, make use of the data to build applications, and so much more. Thank you! <3

Some highlights of the past year:

  • Lexicographical data: This part of Wikidata is growing and the quantity and quality of the data is reaching the point where great applications are now possible. Check out Scribe for example.
  • Reuse of our data: We are collecting and maintaining data because we want to enable great applications, websites, services, and more. This year we focused on better serving the people who use Wikidata’s data and bring it in front of the people who ultimately benefit from it. The Data Reuse Days had some great showcases of what Wikidata enables and also provided good insights into some of the issues that still remain. Two new websites built with data from Wikidata which especially caught people’s attention were WikiTrivia and the globe of notable people.
  • Data quality: Of course, we want to provide reusers and the world with high-quality data, which was the focus of the second Data Quality Days. New tools like the Mismatch Finder will help us build better processes for getting reports about potential issues in our data from larger reusers and others.
  • Wikibase Ecosystem: More and more amazing Wikibase instances are popping up, building out the Wikibase Ecosystem and the wider Linked Data Web and making more data accessible and linked. And with Wikibase.cloud it became even easier to set up a new specialized Wikibase instance and then connect its data to Wikidata’s. Check out Qichwabase for example.

I am excited about what’s to come, among which is a growing lexicographical data corpus that will serve as the basis for Abstract Wikipedia, more involvement of reusers in helping us maintain our data, a growing Wikibase Ecosystem, many new useful and exciting uses of Wikidata’s data, and most importantly I hope to see many of you in-person again.

10 years of Wikidata – 10 years of giving more people more access to more knowledge. Thank you for being a part of it! Here’s to many many more.

Lydia for the development team

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