Hello all,
The October 2025 Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday,
October 15, at 9:30 AM PT / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1760545800>. Our theme this month is
*Celebrating
13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture*.
*We invite you to watch via the YouTube
stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/3NMOvOUCd8Q
<https://www.youtube.com/live/3NMOvOUCd8Q>.* As always, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
Lessons learned from a decade of implementing Wikidata into AcademiaBy *Shani
Evenstein-Sigaltov (University of London; Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees)*The presentation will cover lessons learned from over a decade of
working with Wikidata in Academia from 3 complementary perspectives: 1)
Teaching: implementing Wikidata into the academic curriculum of a
for-credit elective course; 2) Research: A PhD research exploring Wikidata
as a learning platform; 3) Outreach: using Wikidata / Wikibase as a
platform for preserving academic heritage. The presentation will conclude
with a note to the future, and current work exploring how GenAI could be
harnessed to help cultural and academic heritage institutions preserve
knowledge through LOD platforms like Wikidata.
Using Wikidata in GLAM Institutions: a Labs ApproachBy *Gustavo Candela
(University of Alicante)*GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
organisations host extensive digital collections that have been made
available to the public for over three decades. Advances in technology have
facilitated the reuse of digital collections as rich data sources. In this
context, Wikidata has emerged as a leading, innovative, and collaborative
platform that enriches the digital collections provided by GLAM
institutions. However, a comprehensive analysis of the current status,
potential and challenges of its use in the GLAM sector was still lacking.
This presentation will introduce an overview of Wikidata use in GLAM
institutions within the context of the work of the International GLAM Labs
Community (glamlabs.io). This work was presented in 2024 at the TPDL
conference. Looking into the future, in this talk we will describe
additional research topics and discuss how Wikidata will continue to play a
central role in GLAM.
Looking forward to seeing many of you,
Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*Learn more about Wikimedia Research <https://research.wikimedia.org/>*
Dear Wikidata community,
You may have already seen the survey call on AI Applications in Libraries from Oxford below through other mailing lists, but I wanted to make sure to reach out to our library colleagues from the Wikimedia community personally as well. I have held a Wiki Open Science Fellowship myself and know how dedicated the Wiki community is, especially in its global reach and impact.
I am especially interested in people having worked with both LOD and AI approaches to library and cultural heritage data and how these compare for you. If the survey is not for you but you are still interested to talk, please reach out.
We have received strong response numbers so far, but we always appreciate additional feedback from library professionals or other data specialists working with AI and libraries. We would be especially grateful for engagement and invite library colleagues from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to participate. (We've also had wonderful responses from Latin America and the Caribbean, but more are always welcome!)
The survey runs until tomorrow night, 15 October 2025, and survey results will be shared back with the library community. Please note that participants have the option to respond completely anonymously! While the survey is in English, we accept responses in all local languages. If any of the sections do not apply to you, please feel free to skip ahead to the questions at the end.
Thank you so much and I look forward to further future involvement with the Wiki community.
Charlotte
Charlotte Oertel
Metadata Innovation Researcher
Centre for Digital Scholarship | Bodleian Libraries
Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG
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The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, is conducting a survey on AI Applications in Libraries.
We invite library professionals from all backgrounds and levels of technical experience to contribute. The survey takes 10-15 minutes to complete, and responses will be anonymised and aggregated.
Take the survey here:
https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/horizon-scanning-ai-in-librar…
Please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues who may also be interested.
Thank you for your valuable input!
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Please share with colleagues!
Survey link LinkedIn: http://tiny.cc/AIinLibraries
Bluseky link here: https://bsky.app/profile/discoxford.bsky.social/post/3lyufc7ixxa2v
And for Twitter here: https://x.com/toknowmyyname/status/1973745188633030739
Hi everyone,
In July 2024, many of you participated in the Wikidata community survey. We
have now analyzed and summarized the results, which you can review in the
slides available on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Community_Survey_2024_Repo…>
.
Your responses provided us with valuable insights into the demographics of
Wikidata editors, including their geographic distribution, gender, age, and
the activities they engage in on Wikidata.
These results, combined with the findings from our previous survey in 2021,
will help us understand the evolution of our community and its potential
future trajectory. We hope that they will inspire community activities
aimed at increasing diversity and provide further insights into the
composition of our editor community and their activities.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the team
on the discussion page linked here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Usability_and_usefulness/2024-C…>
.
Cheers,
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Mohammed S. Abdulai
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: cal.com/masssly.
A lot is happening around Wikidata - Keep up to date!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates> Current news and
exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our
newsletter (in German): Subscribe now <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>
.
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!
https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg, VR 23855 B.
Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine
Hello all!
The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first
Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to
Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query
Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Have fun and see you soon!
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*Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him)
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
This new vector database makes the structured knowledge from Wikidata
directly accessible for building generative AI applications, while AI
developers can for the first time, integrate open, multilingual, and
verifiable data in Wikidata into large language models (LLMs).
More details are available in the full announcement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Embedding_Project/October_1_2025_Rel…>
.
You can already access the public database here:
https://wd-vectordb.toolforge.org
If you're curious to know more...join the free October 9 Webinar
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Embedding_Project_Webinar>
We're looking forward to seeing what gets built with it!
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*Danny Benjafield*
Community Communications Manager
Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de
Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia,
Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now.
<https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!
https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg, VR 23855 B.
Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine
Hello everyone!
The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first
Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to
Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query
Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Time:
15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET Etherpad:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet
link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi Join by phone:
https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Have fun and see you soon!
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Peter Fischer (he/him)
Senior Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation