Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects

Background

Wikidata for Wikimedia projects team is a Wikimedia Deutschland team created to support existing relationships and forge new ones between Wikidata and its sibling Wikimedia projects.

We work closely with editors, volunteer developers, and other Wikimedia product teams to optimise workflows, decrease redundancy and promote better integration of Wikidata's data in other projects.

We will specifically investigate and work on how Wikidata's data and functionality are reused across the Wikimedia sibling projects.

Some potential areas we could work in are:

Finding ways to reduce technical complexity in workflows where Wikidata is being reused.
Build new features that make new ways of using Wikidata in the other projects possible.
Possible adoption and/or maintenance of user-scripts, gadgets, and community-created tools

Current Development Tasks

We are currently working on caching values called by expensive functions in createSchemaElement to reduce load times of Wiki-pages.

After adding extra-context to the error message displayed when too many Wikidata entities are accessed on a single Wiki-page, we are now researching options to reduce the number of error messages from appearing, whether technical solutions or suggestions for changes in editor workflow.

Your feedback is important! We want to ensure our output does not disrupt your editing experience, interrupt your workflows, and is an intuitive and welcome change. To make sure of that, we want your feedback. Please leave comments or ask questions on the relevant Discussion pages: Talk: createSchemaElement and Talk: Wikidata entity usage count.

How can I participate

Tell us about your problem using Wikidata in a Wikimedia project: Report your issue

Leave a topic on our project Discussion page.
Follow progress on our Phabricator Board
Subscribe to the Wikimedia Deutschland Research pool and help improve Wikidata. Compensation guidelines.
Join our Mailing list

Upcoming Events

Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour

The next takes place April 16th, 2025 18:00 - 19:00 CET (UTC+1). Join via the Wikidata Telegram group. Did you miss us at the last one? Read the transcript.
List of previous events

Wikidata and Sister Projects online event.

A Wikidata XXX Days style conference to celebrate the different ways Wikidata is integrated into the other Wikimedia projects, to enrich editing, solve problems, optimise workflows or connect projects together.
We are currently welcoming session proposals! If you have an idea, please submit it on the event talk page.

Wikimedia Hackathon 2025, hosted in Istanbul, Turkey.

Taking place between May 2 - 4th, we will be represented by the software engineering team and ComCom.
If you would like to meet with us, please leave a message on my talk page.

Contact

Community Communications: Danny Benjafield (talk), book a meeting on my Calendly