Happy 10th birthday, Wikidata! 🎉 - Wikidata

29 Oct 2022

Hello all,

As you may know, Wikidata went live for the first time on October 29, 2012,
allowing thousands of people to create items, populate the wiki and create
the amazing free knowledge base that we know today. On Wikidata's 10th
birthday, we would like to address many thanks to everyone who has been
involved with Wikidata over the past years: long time editors and fresh new
contributors, people carefully curating the data and the ontologies, people
creating tools, people reusing the data, people adding content in many
different languages, people advocating for Wikidata in various places, and
many others whose contribution made Wikidata what it is today.

Now is time to celebrate! Here's what you can do to participate in the
celebration:

   - Write a message on the birthday presents & messages page
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Presents>, where
   you will also find the gifts that some people prepared for the Wikidata
   community and a message from the development team
   - Join one of the many events organized by local Wikidata groups
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday>, onsite all
   around the world or online. You can for example join one of the Wikidata
   online meetups taking place at 08:00 and 17:00 UTC on Jitsi.
   - Read some articles
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Articles_and_videos>
that
   were published for the occasion, and watch the collaborative birthday
   video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQOUMJQY-GM> showcasing Wikidata
   community members from all around the world
   - Join the discussions on social media using the hashtags
   #WikidataBirthday and #Wikidata10.

Happy 10th birthday Wikidata, and thanks for being part of this amazing
project!

Cheers,
-- 
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

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