Dear Wikibase Suite Community,

As we move into a new planning cycle, we’d like to share the strategic priorities guiding our work at Wikimedia Deutschland, developed in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation. We’ve identified three central pillars—Sustainable Growth, Reuse, and Community—to anchor our efforts over the next three years. Below is a summary of our key focus areas and measurable objectives.

Pillar 1: Sustainable Growth of Wikidata

2028 Targets:

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Improve Federation

Our goal for Sustainable growth of Wikidata in 2025 are as follows:

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Improve Federation 1.

Objective: The ability to federate knowledge across instances has improved, creating a viable path for taking load off of Wikidata. 2.

Indicator: Ontology federation and query federation increase

Pillar 2: Communities

2028 Targets:

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Wikibase maintainers are more engaged and resilient as their communities grow. -

Holders of marginalized or underrepresented knowledge are empowered to share their knowledge as LOD and govern and model it in a way that is appropriate for their knowledge.

Our goals for Communities in 2025 are as follows:

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Engagement of Wikibase maintainers increase as communities grow 1.

Objective: We have made self-hosting operations more accessible, robust and easier to manage, fostering project success. 2.

Indicators: 1.

We identify the top 3 reasons why project maintainers are not upgrading to the latest version of Wikibase Deploy and have decided how to address them. 2.

We establish a baseline to evaluate the easiness of self-hosting operations and we set a target accordingly.

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Increase and support diversity in the self-hosted user base 1.

Objective: Users holding and contributing marginalized knowledge find the Wikibase LOD ecosystem (Wikidata + Suite + Cloud) attractive for their use cases.

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Indicators: 1.

Support and/or co-develop at least 4 capacity-building initiatives (e.g., training, mentorship, resources) for marginalized knowledge projects. 2.

We establish a baseline to measure the prevalence of marginalized or underrepresented knowledge.

Next Steps

We will collaborate with the Wikibase Cloud and Wikidata teams to align efforts on federated queries, data governance, and infrastructure sustainability.

We’ve also set up a survey to update our understanding of who is a part of the Wikibase Cloud and Suite ecosystem, as well as to provide a space for Wikibase Cloud users to share their thoughts on the new strategic update. We ask about which product(s) and features they use, for what purpose(s), and how their experience is with them towards continuing to support our community's needs in the next chapter of our product development.

Link to survey can be found here https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Shared-Wikibase-Survey-Q2-2025-

To stay updated on development progress:

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Report technical issues at Wikibase Suite Phabricator Board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5755/ -

Get in touch via Telegram Channel https://t.me/wikibasesuite

Deepesha will also be at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul. A great time to connect and get to know each other!

Best regards,

Valerie and Deepesha on behalf of the Wikibase Suite Team at Wikimedia Deutschland

Valerie Wollinger (She/Her) Community Communications Manager Wikibase

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de

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