#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Charles Demuth, American artist, November 8, 1883 - October 23, 1935
Bermuda: Tree, 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 10 x 14 in
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Charles Demuth, American artist, November 8, 1883 - October 23, 1935
Bermuda: Tree, 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 10 x 14 in
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Charles Demuth, American artist, November 8, 1883 - October 23, 1935
Bermuda: Tree, 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 10 x 14 in
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Charles Demuth, American artist, November 8, 1883 - October 23, 1935
Bermuda: Tree, 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 10 x 14 in
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
SPARQL is difficult….but there are 1500000 query per day in wikidata!
Ciaone!
Ciaone!
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
SPARQL is difficult….but there are 1500000 query per day in wikidata!
Ciaone!
Ciaone!
Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) 🎉
Learn how Wikidata, which houses over 1.6 billion facts, advances education, innovation, and public institutions ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/10...
Learn how Wikidata, which houses over 1.6 billion facts, advances education, innovation, and public institutions ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/10...
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) 🎉
Learn how Wikidata, which houses over 1.6 billion facts, advances education, innovation, and public institutions ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/10...
Learn how Wikidata, which houses over 1.6 billion facts, advances education, innovation, and public institutions ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/10...
Astounding that this guy just happened to have the same name as a famous political scientist
![Misattribution of Wilhoit's law
A quotation popularly known as "Wilhoit's law" is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.[10]
However, it was actually a 2018 blog response by 59-year-old Ohio composer Frank Wilhoit [Wikidata], years after Francis Wilhoit's death.[11]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7dj3dfyyptwq7fsjke4zut3f/bafkreidi4wfebd4ny7y3ysvzcnnb73w6mgdic4tejukdn2fwd2tc6nwdo4@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Astounding that this guy just happened to have the same name as a famous political scientist
Happy 13th birthday, Wikidata!
Facts do not live in isolation; they form a web of connections that shape understanding. Thirteen years ago, Wikidata was created to store and link facts across Wikipedia and its sister projects. ➡️ w.wiki/Jg
Facts do not live in isolation; they form a web of connections that shape understanding. Thirteen years ago, Wikidata was created to store and link facts across Wikipedia and its sister projects. ➡️ w.wiki/Jg
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Happy 13th birthday, Wikidata!
Facts do not live in isolation; they form a web of connections that shape understanding. Thirteen years ago, Wikidata was created to store and link facts across Wikipedia and its sister projects. ➡️ w.wiki/Jg
Facts do not live in isolation; they form a web of connections that shape understanding. Thirteen years ago, Wikidata was created to store and link facts across Wikipedia and its sister projects. ➡️ w.wiki/Jg
#Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good! Wikidata is always the mostly-invisible powerhouse in the background, so this is especially meaningful to me and a great recognition of the work that thousands of people put into structuring the world’s knowledge every single day.
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
#Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good! Wikidata is always the mostly-invisible powerhouse in the background, so this is especially meaningful to me and a great recognition of the work that thousands of people put into structuring the world’s knowledge every single day.
Wikidata has been officially recognised as a digital public good (DPG) by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA). Seems so obvious but this achievement by @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social is definitely something to celebrate! #Wikidata #DigitalPublicGood
a woman in an orange fur coat is standing next to another woman in a red coat .
Alt: a woman in an orange fur coat is standing next to another woman in a red coat celebrating.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wikidata has been officially recognised as a digital public good (DPG) by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA). Seems so obvious but this achievement by @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social is definitely something to celebrate! #Wikidata #DigitalPublicGood
Every day, thousands of editors on #Wikidata provide open, reliable and trustworthy data to the world helping make technology more open and inclusive.
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Wikidata has been recognized by the @DPGAlliance as a #DigitalPublicGood.
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Wikidata has been recognized by the @DPGAlliance as a #DigitalPublicGood.
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Every day, thousands of editors on #Wikidata provide open, reliable and trustworthy data to the world helping make technology more open and inclusive.
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Wikidata has been recognized by the @DPGAlliance as a #DigitalPublicGood.
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Wikidata has been recognized by the @DPGAlliance as a #DigitalPublicGood.
Y'all might especially like this data-filled essay on queer religious representation on Wikidata serials.atla.com/theolib/arti...
Queer Religious Representation on Wikidata: Complexities, Challenges, and Possibilities for Data Creation/Repair
| Theological Librarianship
Theological Librarianship is an open access journal publishing peer-reviewed articles, as well as essays and reviews, on subjects at the intersection of librarianship and religious and theological stu...
serials.atla.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Y'all might especially like this data-filled essay on queer religious representation on Wikidata serials.atla.com/theolib/arti...
🎂 It is Wikidata's 13th birthday & Wikimedia communities are organising birthday meetups, workshops, edit-a-thons, livestreams, hackathons, and much more!
Join Wikimedia Australia online for Drop in & Wikidata, and connect with other Wikidata enthusiasts.
👉 wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidat...!
Join Wikimedia Australia online for Drop in & Wikidata, and connect with other Wikidata enthusiasts.
👉 wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidat...!
wikimedia.org.au
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
🎂 It is Wikidata's 13th birthday & Wikimedia communities are organising birthday meetups, workshops, edit-a-thons, livestreams, hackathons, and much more!
Join Wikimedia Australia online for Drop in & Wikidata, and connect with other Wikidata enthusiasts.
👉 wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidat...!
Join Wikimedia Australia online for Drop in & Wikidata, and connect with other Wikidata enthusiasts.
👉 wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidat...!
Nice to see Wikidata and OpenRefine making it to the skills and resources in Elspeth Haston's presentation on "Tools and skills for digitising herbaria" #LivingData
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Nice to see Wikidata and OpenRefine making it to the skills and resources in Elspeth Haston's presentation on "Tools and skills for digitising herbaria" #LivingData
Fiz parte de um painel de avaliação do #WikiLovesEarth2025 e no fim recebi da @wikimedia.es.web.brid.gy esta surpresa. Usei logo a caneca para chá enquanto lia sobre Gaskell na Wikipedia España 😍
wikimedia.es
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
#WikimediaEspana #Wikipedia #Books #Victober
wikimedia.es
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
#WikimediaEspana #Wikipedia #Books #Victober
October 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Fiz parte de um painel de avaliação do #WikiLovesEarth2025 e no fim recebi da @wikimedia.es.web.brid.gy esta surpresa. Usei logo a caneca para chá enquanto lia sobre Gaskell na Wikipedia España 😍
wikimedia.es
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
#WikimediaEspana #Wikipedia #Books #Victober
wikimedia.es
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
#WikimediaEspana #Wikipedia #Books #Victober
Mike points out that as a result of this improvement to the Biodiversity Heritage Library catalogue, he produces an error report that can help improve #Wikidata. This is a great example of how reuse of Wikidata can bring about improvements to Wikidata. #RoundTripping #LivingData2025
BHL Lead Programmer, Mike Lichtenberg, shares BHL’s process for exchanging persistent identifiers between BHL and Wikidata, and how this enhances discoverability of biodiversity literature, and builds stronger links between BHL and other biodiversity platforms. #LivingData2025 #IloveBHL 🌱 🔗 📖
October 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Mike points out that as a result of this improvement to the Biodiversity Heritage Library catalogue, he produces an error report that can help improve #Wikidata. This is a great example of how reuse of Wikidata can bring about improvements to Wikidata. #RoundTripping #LivingData2025
@svmering.bsky.social shares how @mfnberlin.bsky.social is digitally cataloguing and digitizing its vast natural history collection of approximately 30 million objects and building a #Wikidata knowledge graph connecting taxa, specimens, people, places, publications, and events. #LivingData2025 🧪 🔗
October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@svmering.bsky.social shares how @mfnberlin.bsky.social is digitally cataloguing and digitizing its vast natural history collection of approximately 30 million objects and building a #Wikidata knowledge graph connecting taxa, specimens, people, places, publications, and events. #LivingData2025 🧪 🔗
Our #LivingData2025 session showcased a few of the many ways communities use iNaturalist to advance biodiversity science! Catch the recording: tr.ee/jEcfxN
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Our #LivingData2025 session showcased a few of the many ways communities use iNaturalist to advance biodiversity science! Catch the recording: tr.ee/jEcfxN
Andrew officiated an impromptu wedding at the 2023 Wikimania conference between a couple whose romance sparked in his Wikidata trainings! After saying “I do” they updated Wikidata to say they were married. I cried commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wi...
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Andrew officiated an impromptu wedding at the 2023 Wikimania conference between a couple whose romance sparked in his Wikidata trainings! After saying “I do” they updated Wikidata to say they were married. I cried commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wi...
BHL Lead Programmer, Mike Lichtenberg, shares BHL’s process for exchanging persistent identifiers between BHL and Wikidata, and how this enhances discoverability of biodiversity literature, and builds stronger links between BHL and other biodiversity platforms. #LivingData2025 #IloveBHL 🌱 🔗 📖
October 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BHL Lead Programmer, Mike Lichtenberg, shares BHL’s process for exchanging persistent identifiers between BHL and Wikidata, and how this enhances discoverability of biodiversity literature, and builds stronger links between BHL and other biodiversity platforms. #LivingData2025 #IloveBHL 🌱 🔗 📖
wikidata is both a) fascinating and b) deeply underrated (under-recognized?) by humanities researchers
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
wikidata is both a) fascinating and b) deeply underrated (under-recognized?) by humanities researchers
Thanks Rob! I'm coming at it this issue from a #Wikidata point of view. My exposure to synonyms mostly comes about when adding specimen names as structured data to Biodiversity Heritage Library images in Wikimedia Commons. I hold hope BHL will then reuse that in their corpus at some point.
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Thanks Rob! I'm coming at it this issue from a #Wikidata point of view. My exposure to synonyms mostly comes about when adding specimen names as structured data to Biodiversity Heritage Library images in Wikimedia Commons. I hold hope BHL will then reuse that in their corpus at some point.
because this is wikipedia related I should probably be clear that I'm not 100% confident about the details of how they hit it off but I definitely remember Andrew saying something like ~"here I was thinking he really loved wikidata when he really just wanted to see Netha"
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
because this is wikipedia related I should probably be clear that I'm not 100% confident about the details of how they hit it off but I definitely remember Andrew saying something like ~"here I was thinking he really loved wikidata when he really just wanted to see Netha"
The 800-page Second Austrian Climate Report (AAR2) is now more accessible thanks to Wikimedia Austria.
Open licensing and a Wikimedian in Residence helped bring key findings to Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata, connecting climate science to everyday life.
Read more ➡️ w.wiki/FXHt
Open licensing and a Wikimedian in Residence helped bring key findings to Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata, connecting climate science to everyday life.
Read more ➡️ w.wiki/FXHt
October 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The 800-page Second Austrian Climate Report (AAR2) is now more accessible thanks to Wikimedia Austria.
Open licensing and a Wikimedian in Residence helped bring key findings to Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata, connecting climate science to everyday life.
Read more ➡️ w.wiki/FXHt
Open licensing and a Wikimedian in Residence helped bring key findings to Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata, connecting climate science to everyday life.
Read more ➡️ w.wiki/FXHt
Ahhhh the soothing feeling of hiding in the Studio (trying to adjust to our rebrand from two separate labs to the Creative and Critical Data Studio) and spending a morning adding VIAF and Wikidata identifiers and GeoJSON to a data repo.
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Ahhhh the soothing feeling of hiding in the Studio (trying to adjust to our rebrand from two separate labs to the Creative and Critical Data Studio) and spending a morning adding VIAF and Wikidata identifiers and GeoJSON to a data repo.
The #LivingData2025 conference is starting soon. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyi... #Wikidata
Integrating research expedition data: from BHL into the Wikiverse
YouTube video by Siobhan Leachman
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The #LivingData2025 conference is starting soon. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyi... #Wikidata
BHL Superuser & Wikimedian extraordinaire
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. 📖 👩💻 🔗 🦋 #LivingData #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. 📖 👩💻 🔗 🦋 #LivingData #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
BHL Superuser & Wikimedian extraordinaire
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. 📖 👩💻 🔗 🦋 #LivingData #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. 📖 👩💻 🔗 🦋 #LivingData #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL