Wikidata:Eleventh Birthday/Messages
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Birthday wishes
[edit]- Côte d'Ivoire : Happy 11th Birthday to the entire Wikidata community! I love creating and editing things in this knowledge base! : Kod B (talk) 09:02, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
- Albania: Gëzuar ditëlindjen Wikidata. Cheers to 100 years more! --Margott (talk) 08:35, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
- Here's is another year of growth,innovation,and making knowledge accessible to all.May.Wikidata continue to thrive, bringing people together through the power of data and information.Ngangaesther (talk) 11.39, 12 Oct 2023 (UTC)
- Again, it's late October. Happy birthday, Wikidata! J 1982 (talk) 18:42, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
- Happy 11th birthday to Wikidata, it can be freely used and reused by anyone for any purpose, thank you so much for your service for open data community 🙏 : Kasyap (talk) 07:38, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
- Happy 11th Birthday to wikidata community,May you grow to the best repository in the world Almaddy2022 5:30, 28th October,2023 (UTC)
- 恭喜 Wikidata 走過 11 週年,讓我們為全球資料多元、流通與互聯持續努力。--Allenwang6212a (talk) 13:26, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
- Wikidata, the sum of knowlegde from all Wikimedia projects and beyond, the hub of all credible authoritative sources, the unbiased information source, the truly multilingual multicultral global knowledge base, the ultimate free knowledge base for everyone, everything, everywhere. Long life Wikidata! Midleading (talk) 16:23, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
- As from oct,2022 I have edited 1,341 articles. I love edit Wikidata, Wishing you a Happy Birthday. (by Almaddy2022)
- Happy 11th birthday from Vermont USA. I love free, structured data. Here's to many more. Jessamyn - Flickr Foundation (my talk page) 22:33, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- Tyap Wikimedians UG: We wish Wikidata a happy 11th birthday and much more to come. As we celebrate your birthday this year, may you see more and more editors flocking in to make you better. On behalf of the Tyap Wikimedians User Groups, cheers! Kambai Akau (talk) 00:47, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Message from the Wikidata development team
[edit]Today it is time to celebrate Wikidata’s 11th birthday. Let’s take a look back at the past year and what’s coming.
There are now over 12.200 amazing people who are actively editing on Wikidata - 3000 of them even making more than 100 edits a month ♥️ Thank you! Without you Wikidata wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for helping give more people more access to more knowledge every single day. This year also marks the year we can welcome a new sister to the Wikimedia projects: Wikifunctions is live, letting us all geek out on functions in anticipation of Abstract Wikipedia. Another big milestone was Wikibase Cloud coming out of private beta. Now you can more easily run your own Wikibase and collect and maintain data that doesn’t fit into Wikidata. 2023 was also the year when the efforts of Wikidata editors were recognized across the Wikimedia movement with the awarding of the Wikimedian of the Year award to Taufik Rosman and the Wikimedia Laureate award to Siobhan Leachman. Over the coming year I want us to find ways how we can bring more people, who are already editing a bit here and there, closer to the community and help them find their place in our community. If you are one of them and have not found your place yet, check out a WikiProject related to your interests. Wikidata has something for everyone 😉
Wikidata now has over 106 Million Items and nearly 1.2 Million Lexemes. We are closing in on 2 Billion edits, making about 20 Million edits per month. All this content is used to create useful, quirky, educational or just fun applications that wouldn’t be possible without Wikidata and all the work you put into it. Check out Notable People for example. Over the coming year we want to make that even easier by building better APIs, lessening the strain on the Query Service, doing more outreach to developers as well as making our data more usable by ironing out ontology issues. In addition there will be increased focus on improving how the other Wikimedia projects integrate Wikidata. With the opening up of Wikibase Cloud we will hopefully also see many new Wikibases pop up that cover more specialized data or be used as playgrounds to prepare data for Wikidata. I am looking forward to a growing Wikibase Ecosystem and excited about more Linked Open Data becoming available to the world, with Wikidata being an entryway to it all.
And last but not least: if you want to learn a bit more about the history and backstory of Wikidata, then you might like Wikidata: The Making Of by Denny, Markus and me.
Lydia for the development team