Wikidata:Ninth Birthday

Wikidata's distributed birthday | October 2021 | #WikidataBirthday

WikidataCon 2021

Wikidata turns nine! The project went live on 29 October 2012. Just like every year, we're celebrating its birthday together in late-October. On this page, you can discover how to contribute to the anniversary and participate in the celebrations.

Prepare a birthday present

The birthday presents is a tradition to celebrate Wikidata and its community by preparing a gift to be offered to all editors, data reusers and everyone involved with Wikidata. At this occasion, some people develop new tools, add features to existing tools, create logos or templates. But a birthday present can be a lot of other things! You can be creative and produce a piece of art, a song, a poem... anything that is celebrating Wikidata or that is useful for its community is very welcome.

You can participate! Now is a good time to start working on a birthday present. You're encouraged to find other people to create something with you, but you can also work on your own project. If you're looking for inspiration, you can check what was done for the previous anniversaries in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

When your birthday present is ready, you can add it to this page. Don't forget to add the relevant links, and your username.

If you would like to present your gift to the community, you also have the opportunity to present it during the birthday celebration at WikidataCon 2021. See more information in the section below.

Attend the online WikidataCon 2021

The WikidataCon 2021 will take place online on October 29-31, and gather the Wikidata community around its theme, a sustainable future for Wikidata.

Feel free to check the program, the side events, the onsite gatherings, the registration (opening on September 15th), how to get involved, and the program Reimagining Wikidata from the margins.

Sign up for the WikidataCon 2021

Birthday presents at WikidataCon 2021

You prepared a present for Wikidata's birthday and would like to present it to the community? You can sign up for the birthday presents lightning talks session that will take place during the WikidataCon 2021, on Day 3, October 31, at 17:00 UTC in Room 3. To register for a slot, please add your project on this pad. You can add a project until 1 hour before the session takes place.

About your presentation: You will have 5 minutes to talk about your birthday present.
The session is talking place online, recorded, on October 31 at 17:00 UTC. You can share slides or your screen. Providing a pre-recorded video is possible. The session takes place in English.
Please make sure that you are registered for the WikidataCon 2021 in order to access the session.

Join or organize other events

Other events will take place onsite or online around the WikidataCon. For example, you can check:

The side events of the conference (events related to Wikidata and Wikibase that are not necessarily organized by the WikidataCon organizers and take place before or after the conference);
The preconference Transbordados, a series of events and trainings that will take place online, in Spanish and Portuguese;
If the local health measures allow it, some people will organize onsite gatherings to attend the WikidataCon together;
You can also organize a birthday event with your community or in your area: if so, feel free to add details on this page;
To connect with other people organizing Wikidata-related events, feel free to join the Wikidata Events Telegram group.

Leave a birthday wish

To add a birthday message and send love to the Wikidata community, feel free to add it to this page.