Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on November 28th at 16:00 UTC! If you’d like to join,
simply sign up on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
and collaborate on solutions. For example, in our upcoming meeting, we plan
to hear from contributors of the Wikitongues project and Fante
Wikimedia Community.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d
love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda
items to the document here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-nov-2025>.
Also, we’d like to highlight that the 9th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (October 2025)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
is
now available. This newsletter provides updates from the July–September
2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various
language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay
updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Language_and_Internationalization…>
on
its wiki page.
Are you interested in contributing to the technical work around language
development? See a curated list of technical contribution tasks here:
T407935 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407935>.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting. See you there!
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on February 27th at 16:00 UTC! If you’d like to join,
simply sign up on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Pr…>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
and collaborate on solutions. In our upcoming meeting, we’ll hear about a
new Wikidata Visibility Initiative and updates on the CapX Translat-a-thon.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d
love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda
items to the document here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-feb-2026>.
Also, we’d like to highlight that the 10th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (February 2026)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
is now available. This newsletter provides updates from the
October–December 2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in
various language-related projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting. See you there!
Feel free to translate this message into your local language and share it
on your village pump or other community channels to help spread the word.
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone 👋🏼
Every year on February 21 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2350>,
communities around the world celebrate International Mother Language Day
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42375>, a day to remember that every
language carries stories, knowledge and identity. This year, we invite you
to celebrate it together through a collaborative *International Mother
Language Day 2026 Datathon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Events/Internation…>*,
on Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2013> running from *February 21
to March 3, 2026.*[1]
Inspired by the theme *"Youth voices on multilingual education," * this
datathon is not just about editing data. It’s all about giving our
languages a stronger digital presence and creating space for diverse voices
in the open knowledge movement. Whether you speak a widely used language or
a smaller community language, your contributions can help make Wikidata
more inclusive and multilingual.
*✨ What can you do during the datathon?*
- Have a Wikidata Tour <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours> in
your native language if you haven't 😉
- Improve labels and descriptions in your language
- Help document multilingual education initiatives
- Collaborate with other communities and learn together
We warmly welcome everyone, especially communities, user groups, wiki clubs
and youth contributors to join and help shape this datathon as a collective
effort.
If you're interested in participating, please visit the event page and register
for the datathon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/3123>.[2] If your
community or user group would like to collaborate, we would love to have
you with us. Let’s come together to celebrate our languages, learn from one
another, and strengthen multilingual knowledge on Wikidata.💛
For questions feel free to reach out on the WikiProject India talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_India>.[3]
*📱 Editing from mobile - try it & share your feedback *
Did you know you can now edit Wikidata from your mobile device much more
easily? You can enable the mobile editing option from your Preferences -->
Beta features . You can share your feedback with the team after making your
amazing contributions during this time.[4]
Warm regards,
*Jinoy*
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Events/Internation…
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/3123
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_India
[4]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Usability_and_usefulness/Item_e…
*Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to.Every 3000 sheets
consume a tree. Conserve Trees for a better tomorrow!*
(Apologies for cross-posting)
The European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) is a major venue for academic
research and developments in the area of the Semantic Web and Knowledge
Graphs. The 23rd edition will take place from May 10 to 14, 2026, in
Dubrovnik, Croatia.
The ESWC industry track is a forum for exchanging ideas, results, and
lessons learned amongst Semantic Web researchers, technologists, and
product leaders across industry and academia. The goal is to learn from the
process of bringing cutting-edge Semantic Web research to state-of-the-art
applications and to align current research efforts with existing real-world
requirements that justify the adoption of novel approaches in the face of
otherwise unfeasible challenges.
The industry track aims to identify the application domains of Semantic Web
technologies that present the state of adoption of Semantic Web
technologies in the industry, and facilitate a discussion about what
current industry challenges can be addressed with Semantic Web
technologies, the hurdles that may stand in the way of broader adoption,
and any novel problems and use cases. Across all submissions, emphasis
should be put on demonstrating the value and impact created by using
knowledge graphs and Semantic Web technologies to address real-world
industry problems. We explicitly welcome papers that report on "negative"
results.
Important Dates
Submission deadline March 25, 2026
Notification of acceptance April 10, 2026
Camera-ready final version April 24, 2026
All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12).
More information: https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/calls/industry-track/
Industry Track Chairs
Lars Heling
SAP Business AI - Germany
lars.heling(a)sap.com
Stefan Schmid
Bosch Research - Germany
stefan.schmid(a)bosch.com
Hello,
Happy second week of February. This email describes two job postings that
may interest you or your colleagues. Earlier emails were sent to
Wiki-research-l
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wiki-research-l.lists.wikimedia…>
regarding these positions; please disregard the this email if you already
saw the info via Research-l. I'm consolidating info from both posts.
Position 1, posted at
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoctoral…,
is for a *postdoctoral researcher*. Quoting from the posting:
“Applications are invited from candidates *who have, or will soon obtain*,
a PhD in demography, sociology, epidemiology, medicine, health economics,
biostatistics, public health, or a related field.
"The successful candidate is expected to work within one or more of the
following areas:
1.
*Disease Presence and Disease Impact*
1.
Has disease presence become more or less predictive of disease
impact?
2.
How do the timing and patterns of disease accumulation shape the
onset of disease impact and individual health trajectories, including
pathways to death?
2.
*Diffusion of Medical Progress in Populations*
1.
How does medical progress shape health inequalities within
populations?
2.
How are changes in population health linked to how medical progress
is distributed within and across populations, for example through in- and
outpatient care?
3.
*Population Resilience and Vulnerability*
1.
How can population resilience and vulnerability be measured?
2.
Does medical progress make populations more or less vulnerable?”
Position 2 is for a *principal research scientist*. The job posting is at
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/7597104. Quoting Leila (who
is CC'd on this email): “Please note
that if you have applied for the research scientist position which was
shared
<
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia…>
in December 2025, you are automatically considered for this new position
and there is no need to apply again. We will reach out to you if we need
additional information from you.”
Quoting from the job description:
“We are hiring a Principal Research Scientist to join the Wikimedia
Foundation’s Research team <https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html> to
support the Wikimedia communities and the Wikimedia Foundation in the
continued evolution of Wikimedia projects and their decentralized
governance model, ensuring that the projects become multigenerational
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Multigenerational>.
"Here are some things we’ve worked on that might give you a better sense of
the scope of the work you will be accountable for and part of:
-
Understanding Wikipedia administrator recruitment, retention, and
attrition (Learn more
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Administrator_Recruitmen…>)
-
A set of recommendations for conducting NPOV research on Wikipedia (Learn
more
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Guidance_for_NPOV_Research_on_Wiki…>)
-
Developing a meta-method for analyzing the state of NPOV on Wikipedia (Learn
more
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:A_meta-method_for_analyzing_NPOV_o…>)
"You can learn more about what the team has done in the past six months by
reading our biannual report <https://research.wikimedia.org/report.html>.
"Please note: this is a fully remote role that requires working with senior
leadership and stakeholders across the organization and the research
community in different timezones. It is expected that the Principal
Research Scientist be available for critical meetings and synchronous work
between 15:00 to 19:00 UTC. It is further expected that the candidate is
open to traveling up to four times per year.”
Leila posted some additional information on the Research mailing list. The
thread is viewable at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia…
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia…>
Good luck to any applicants.
(Disclaimer: I'm not an employee of either of the hiring organizations.
Please direct any questions to the applicable organization.)
Regards,
Pine🌲
Dear Wikibase and Wikidata Communities,
As mentioned in our latest announcements about upcoming strategic changes,
we decided to pour our energy into ecosystem-related activities such as
federation and data governance. As you might know, our Linked Open Data
Strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LinkedOpenData/Strategy2021/Wikibase> is
built on the idea that our products are capable of building synergies as
well as growing sustainably.
With this research project, we hope to get a more nuanced understanding of
which projects are perceived to belong into which product category. We aim
to synthesize and map how people currently use the three LOD products, what
their desired use cases are, and where the boundaries between these
platforms may need clarification or additional support.
This process is part of a broader strategy to ensure our hosting
infrastructure remains sustainable and mission-aligned.
A key outcome will be a clearer understanding of:
-
What kinds of projects are best suited for each LOD product
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Where overlap, duplication, or ambiguity exists
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How we can make more mission-aligned, predictable decisions on growth
and hosting
Process Design
You will be invited to participate in an asynchronous card sort exercise
where you will be asked to sort imagined projects into four categories:
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1 - Wikibase Cloud
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2 - Wikidata
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3 - Suite or other ways of Wikibase hosting
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4 - Wikibase is not a suitable software for this use case
Participants will be asked to explain their thought process aloud so that
we can also ensure that we’re considering the full dimensions of each use
case (e.g., technical needs, scope, resource requirements). The results
will inform product strategy across WBC, WBS, and WD—while also offering
key insights into ambivalent or complex areas that require further
discussion.
This approach ensures everyone can participate in their own time, without
needing to attend multiple meetings.
We’re offering two ways to participate:
1. Card Sort Research Activity (Primary Method)
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Asynchronous (early- mid-July)
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Approx. 30 minutes
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No technical expertise required
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Focused on sorting and classifying use cases
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Recorded screen and microphone
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Optional: follow-up interview (if you’d like to talk more)
2. Extended Stakeholder Group (Optional Additional Involvement)
Includes:
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Asynchronous activity (above)
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Research insights discussion (synchronous, 30-45 minutes, end of July)
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Async policy draft review (end of August)
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Group session (August, 1.5–2 hours)
Total time: ~3.5 hours
Compensation: 35 EUR (if eligible)
Participation
We aim to recruit at least 30, ideally up to 50 community members across
the LOD ecosystem to participate in the research activities, including:
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Wikibase Cloud users
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Self-hosted Wikibase users
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Wikidata users who are invested in the broader Wikibase ecosystem.
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At least 10 marginalized knowledge holders
Join us!
We will send a link to participate in the card-sort within the next week.
If you would like to participate in the Extended Stakeholder Group, please
reach out to us via email: annie.kim(a)wikimedia.de. We will share the
opportunities as they come up, likely at the end of July and the end of
August, respectively.
Thank you for your continued care and contributions. We're looking forward
to exploring this research with you! :)
On behalf of the Linked Open Data Ecosystem,
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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