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October 2025
Elissa Welle:
Wikimedia wants to make it easier for you and AI developers to search through its data
, The Verge, October 1, 2025
December 2014
Faktendatenbank für Wikipedia: Google gibt Freebase an Wikidata
, Heise Online, December 17, 2014
Google plans to integrate its fact database Freebase into Wikimedia’s Wikidata
, VentureBeat News, December 16, 2014
Google is shutting down its Freebase knowledge base
, Gigaom, December 16, 2014
October 2014
Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase
, Communications of the ACM
Wikidata wins the Open Data Award in category publisher
August 2014
Histropedia – tool to visualise history unveiled at Wikimania
(The Guardian) 11 August 2014
June 2014
Le Monde uses data from Wikidata for some interesting research
, lemonde.fr, June 7, 2014
See also
[Wikidata:Bibliography of Wikidata]]
March 2014
Paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch
, korrekt.org
December 2013
Wikikonference 2013: Pište seminárky na Wikipedii a zapojte vzdělané důchodce
(cs) December 3th, 2013 - article about Czech wiki-conference
October 2013
Hello, Good-Bye at Wikidata
, SemanticWeb, October 1, 2013
Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
, Greg Nudelman (Twitter), October 18
Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
, Merrilee Proffitt (Twitter), October 18, 2013
September 2013
Weibliche Wikis gesucht - Das neue Projekt heißt Wikidata
September 22nd, 2013
What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?
, The Signpost (Wikipedia), September 18, 2013
July 2013
IBM Watson donates prize money to Wikimedia Foundation
July 17th, 2013
June 2013
At SemTechBiz, Knowledge Graphs Are Everywhere
June 07th, 2013
Проект Wikidata получил грант на $150 тыс. от «Яндекса»
, CNews, June 6, 2013
Некоммерческий проект Wikidata получил грант «Яндекса» в 150 тыс евро
, Digit, June 6, 2013
Digital.Leben
, OE1.orf.at, May 21, 2013
Wikidata and Authority Control Video Explains How Wikidata Bolstered Authority Control in Wikipedia
, OCLC Research, June 13, 2013
May 2013
Tehnične novosti v Wiki svetu
, slo-tech.com, May 02nd, 2013
Wikidata geht es nicht darum, Wahrheit zu speichern
, dradio.de, May 04th, 2013
Manuskript: Wikipedia und Wissenschaft
, Deutschlandfunk, May 26, 2013
April 2013
Wikidata: een grote stap vooruit voor Wikipedia
, lastampa.it, April 30th, 2013
Wikidata: un database “open” per Big Data
, netties.be, April 29th, 2013
Wikidata is a huge step for Wikipedia and the Internet
, ghacks.net, April 26th, 2013
Nace Wikidata, la base de datos libre
, elperiodico.com, April 26th, 2013
Die Wikidata-Revolution ist da
, neustadt-news.de, April 25th, 2013
Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
, mynewsdesk.com, April 25th, 2013
Wikidata goes live worldwide
, h-online.com, April 25th, 2013
Wikidata ist für alle Wikipedien da
, golem.de, April 25th, 2013
January 2013
Wikimedia eröffnet Reiseportal
, heise.de, January 15th, 2013
Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment
, Wikipedia Signpost, January 14th, 2013
December 2012
Wikidata: People And Bots Busy Filling The System In Phase One
, semanticweb.com, December 17th, 2012
Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge
, Tech2, December 8th, 2012
November 2012
Wikidata - Wikipedia’s Game-changer
, Linux User & Developer, November 18th, 2012
Wikipedia moet meer filmpjes krijgen
, Bright.nl, November 9th, 2012
Wikidata-Projekt startet durch
, Pro-Linux.de, November 2nd, 2012
Wikipedia startet Datenbank
, Spiegel Online, November 1st, 2012
October 2012
Wikidata: Daten-Fundus für Wikipedia eröffnet
, heise.de, October 31th, 2012
Onlineenzyklopädie bekommt zentrale Datenbank
, golem.de, October 31th, 2012
Wikimedia launches Wikidata and reports on Wikipedia Zero
, h-online.com, October 31th, 2012
Wikidata: Große Wikipedia-Weiterentwicklung startet
, winfuture.de, October 30th, 2012
Nuovi strumenti per la condivisione dei dati delle ricerche
, marionegri.it, October 4th, 2012
Exberliner
, Exberliner print version, October 2012
August 2012
Wikipedia soll schöner werden
, Spiegel Online, August 14th, 2012
Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity
, Wikipedia Signpost, August 6th, 2012
July 2012
Wikipedia presenta Wikidata, il database libero
, libertiamo, July 21st, 2012
Wikidata, nel 2013 il database dell'universo
, Corriere della Sera, July 16th, 2012
Wikidata, el sitio en el que los datos intentarán superar a los números
, La Gaceta, July 15th, 2012
Wikidata: The next big internet resource
, The Hindu, July 14th, 2012
May 2012
Wikidata Summit kicks off in Berlin
, Blog post by Guillaume Paumier, Wikimedia Foundation, May 31st, 2012
Wikidata: the next step for Wikipedia and more
, Information Today Europe, May 15, 2012
April 2012
Open Data Wikidata : Wikipedia comme une base de données
, LinuxFr.org, 13 avril 2012,
Two Perspectives on Wikidata
, semanticweb.com, April 10, 2012,
The Problem With Wikidata
, The Atlantic, April 6, 2012,
Umbau im Haus des Wissens
, NZZOnline, April 5, 2012,
The next big thing? An interview with Wikidata
, Wikipedia Signpost, April 9, 2012,
Wikipedia to gain collaborative database
, Smart Company, April 4, 2012,
Wikidata: A Data Revolution for Wikipedia
, Scientific Computing, April 4, 2012,
Teaching Wikipedia to Write Itself
, The Atlantic, April 2, 2012,
Wikidata: Wikipedia to get a collaborative database
, H-online, April 2, 2012,
March 2012
Wikidata veut faciliter la mise à jour de Wikipédia
, Numerama, 31 mars 2012,
Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others
, Techcrunch, March 30, 2012,
Wikipedia'dan Wikidata'ya Geçiyoruz
, Techno-Labs, March 30, 2012 (Turkish),
Wikidata to provide structured data for all Wikipedia versions
, Cnet News, March 30, 2012,
Wikipedia's Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others
, Huff Post Tech, March 30, 2012,
Data Revolution for Wikipedia
, Market Watch, March 30, 2012,
Paul Allen giving Wikipedia data project $867,000
, Tech Flash, March 30, 2012,
Wikidata – le prochain grand projet de Wikipedia
[fr], fhimt.com, 23 mars 2012.
Blogs
December 2014
Content Ours, or: the sum of the parts
, The Whelming, December 8 2014
Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
, Blog by Andy Mabbett
Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the workplan
, WDME blog, December 19 2014
November 2014
Wikidata 2
, Blog by Mike Linksvayer, 30 October, 2014
Establishing Wikidata as the central hub for linked open life science data
, WDME blog, October 22, 2014
Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
, Histropedia
First ODI Open Data Awards presented by Sirs Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt
, Blog post by ODI, November 4, 2014
Zwei Jahre Wikidata: Eine Feier mit Geschenken und einem Preis
, WDME blog, November 5, 2014
Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
, Histropedia
Building a Periodic Table using Wikidata
, November 20, 2014
Picture this!
, The Whelming by Magnus Manske, November 24, 2014
Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB – where next?
, Generalising, November 26, 2014
Wikidata and identifiers – part 2, the matching process
, Generalising, November 27, 2014
October 2014
Transatlantic work on structured data in Berlin
, WDME blog, October 14, 2014
Clusterf…amilies
, The Whelming by Magnus Manske, October 7, 2014
September 2014
Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia
, WDME blog, September 2, 2014
Outreach Program for Women at Wikidata
, WDME blog, September 8, 2014
August 2014
Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
, WDME blog, August 9, 2014
Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
, WDME blog, August 19, 2014
June 2014
The Games Continue
, The Whelming by Magnus Manske, June 3, 2014
May 2014
Thank you, Zurich! Merci vielmal, Züri! Wikimedia Hackathon Zürich 2014
, WDME Blog, May 13, 2014
April 2014
Post scriptum
, The Whelming by Magnus Manske, April 10, 2014
Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome
, Blog by Hay Kranen, April 3, 2014
Wikidata and naval history
, Words and what not, April 11, 2014
qLabel: Multilingual content without translation
, Google Open Source Blog, April 1, 2014
March 2014
Wikidata: Cambridge Revisited 2
, Words and what not, March 15, 2014
Reasonator: Cambridge Revisited 5
, Words and what not, March 21, 2014
Commons and Wikidata: The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files
, Words and what not, March 19, 2014
February 2014
Reasonator: Presents the first Wikipedia paragraph
, Words and what not, February 7, 2014
Reasonator: improving your personal space
, Words and what not, February 10, 2014
Reasonator: A bit selective, not random
, Words and what not, February 13, 2014
Reasonator: Johann Sebastian Bach in so many words
, Words and what not, February 7, 2014
Reasonator: Add labels in your language
, Words and what not, Februart 14, 2014
December 2013
Wikidata complements search in the Italian Wikipedia
, Words and what not, December 2, 2013
Wyniki wyszukiwania w Wikidata
, Words and what not, December 4, 2013
November 2013
Magnus, master of WikiMedia tools
, Words and word not, October 30, 2013
Wikidata, or: Wikipedia, the other 60%
, The Whelming by Magnus Manske, November 6, 2013
Red link lists on steroids
, The Whelming by Magnus Manske, November 12, 2013
An interview with Denny Vrandečić
, Words and what not, November 20, 2013
Introducing the Wikidata “Concept Cloud”
, WMDE blog, November 25, 2013
October 2013
Pushing Wikidata to the next level
, WDME blog, October 1, 2013
Google Summer of Code 2013 Wrap Up
, Blog by Pragun Bhutani (Blog has been closed down)
Wikidata Query updates
, The Whelming by Magnus Manske, October 3, 2013
Wikidata qualifiers
, Words and what not, September 30, 2013
Do not use Wikipedia as your source
, Words and what not, October 19, 2013
September 2013
Wikidata quality and quantity
, WMDE blog, September 4, 2013
10 Questions about VLAF, Wikidata and the World
, Words and what not, September 5, 2013
A categorical imperative?
WMDE blog, September 12, 2013
Wikidata query
, The Whelming by Magnus Manske, September 17, 2013
Some answers about the heady stuff of Wikidata
, Words and what not, September 17, 2013
“Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
, OCLC Research, September 25, 2013
Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
, Words and what not, September 27, 2013
Data for the people!
, WMDE blog, September 27, 2013
August 2013
Wikidata babel multi-language display Easter egg
, notconfusing by Max Klein, August 14, 2013
The Occitan Wikipedia and Wikidata
, Words and what not, August 16, 2013
Wikidata and other technical bits at Wikimania
, WMDE blog, August 22, 2013
June 2013
On truths and lies
, WMDE blog, June 4, 2013
The most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
, notconfusing by Max Klein, June 12, 2013
Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
, Hotel Wikpedia, June 17, 2013
May 2013
The Wikidata tool ecosystem
WMDE blog, May 6, 2013
Sex ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
, OCLC Research, May 13, 2013
The Ropebridges: Authority control in Wikidata
, OCLC Research, May 9, 2013
April 2013
Welcome to Wikidata! Now what?
The Guardian, April 26, 2013
February 2013
Phase 2 of Wikidata going live
, WMDE blog, February 4, 2013
Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment
, The Signpost, February 4, 2013
Wikidata live on the English Wikipedia
, WMDE blog, February 13, 2013
The future of Wikidata
, WMDE blog, February 20, 2013
January 2013
Wikidata coming to the next two Wikipedias
, WMDE blog, January 30, 2013
Wikidata arriva su Wikipedia in ebraico e in italiano
, Wiki spiegata a mia nonna, January 30, 2013
First step of Wikidata in the Hungarian Wikipedia
, WMDE blog, January 14, 2013
Wikidata is used on the Hungarian Wikipedia
, Words and what not, January 17, 2013
Wikidata needs localisation
, Words and what not, January 5, 2013
Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia
, WMDE blog, January 19, 2013
Project about paid editing starts
, WMDE blog, January 23, 2013
November 2012
First part of phase 1 of Wikidata is online
, WMDE blog, November 1, 2012
October 2012
Looking back at August and September at Wikidata
, WMDE blog, October 8, 2012
September 2012
Anja Jentzsch joins the Wikidata team
, WMDE blog, September 5, 2012
August 2012
Looking back at the last two months of wikidata work
, WMDE blog, August 8, 2012
July 2012
And the winner is...
, WMDE blog, July 13, 2012
Wikidata logo: It's time to pick a winner!
, WMDE blog, July 3, 2012
June 2012
Wikidata applies for the Knight News Challenge and you can help
, WMDE blog, June 25 2012
The second month of Wikidata
, WMDE blog, June 12, 2012
Wikidata needs a logo and you can help
, WMDE blog, June 9, 2012
Wikidata can get more facts out
, Words and what not, June 14, 2012
OmegaWiki vs Wikidata
, Words and what not, June 3, 2012
Redlinks in any language
, Words and what not, June 1, 2012
Disambiguating and redirecting
, Words and what not, June 1, 2012
Single signon
, Words and what not, June 1, 2012
Wikipedianer in der SLUB. Heute Treffen zum Projekt Wikidata
, SLUB Dresden, June 14, 2012
May 2012
The first month of Wikidata
, WMDE blog, May 7, 2012
Wikidata
, Words and what not, May 31, 2012
Now at translate wiki: Wikidata
, Words and what not, May 1, 2012
April 2012
Addressing feedback about Wikidata
, WMDE blog, 27 April, 2012,
Wikidata may support what Wikipedia does not know
, Words and what not, April 28, 2012
Wikidata: a new open data repository for the world
, OKFN, April 19, 2012
Wikidata and what it can do for Wikipedia
, Words and what not, April 11, 2012
Logo for Wikidata
, Words and what not, April 10, 2012
Wikidata: a common source of structured data for all Wikipedias
, Zec Blog, April 9, 2012.
Meet the Wikidata team
, WMDE blog, April 4, 2012
March 2012
Wikidata, the interview
, Words and what not, March 31, 2012
Paul Allen backs Wikidata project
, Brier Dudley's Blog, The Seattle Times, March 30, 2012.
Techies Team Up to Make Wikipedia Smarter
, Shira Ovide, Digits, March 30, 2012.
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