On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM Danny Benjafield < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > As part of Wikimedia Deutschland’s 2030 Strategic Direction and in close > collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the Wikidata team has > set its priorities for 2025 around 4 core themes: ensuring Wikidata can > continue to grow sustainably, strengthening the diverse community of > editors, increasing reuse our data, and refining the underlying platform > services that power everything we build together. > > We chose these focuses because, first, as Wikidata’s size and impact > expand, What data is this statement about Wikidata's expanding impact based on? (I.e., how does Wikimedia Deutschland define and measure Wikidata's impact?) > it’s crucial that we build systems and policies that keep our > infrastructure healthy and our data dependable. Second, our community > remains at the heart of everything we do -- whether someone contributes the > first statement to a brand new Item or runs complex queries that power > research and apps. Finally, by refining data access methods “as a service” > across our ecosystem, we’ll open the door for all our product teams and > third-party developers to build meaningful services and applications that > create positive impact. > > Supporting sustainable growth means two things this year. > > We’ll partner with the Wikibase teams to improve federated SPARQL queries. > This would allow you pull data seamlessly from multiple Wikibase instances > lowering the barrier to hosting some data in other parts of the Wikibase > Ecosystem, ensuring everyone can continue to access and edit data reliably. > At the same time, we’ll have conversations about data governance guidelines > together with the Cloud and Suite teams and the wider Wikidata community. > This way it's always obvious where different kinds of data belong. That > clarity helps editors make confident decisions, reduces duplicate work, and > lays the foundation for new projects that can flourish alongside Wikidata > itself. > > Strengthening the Wikidata community means making every step of > contribution easier and more rewarding. > > Mobile editing has grown in recent years, yet adding or updating statements > on a phone still forces many users into “desktop view.” We’ll roll out a > prototype that will make editing statements on mobile phones easier. To > help more advanced editors and tool builders, we’ll continue growing the > visibility and documentation around EntitySchemas, so that editors > everywhere can adopt these powerful templates and can integrate them out of > the box. And of course, we’ll bring people together through online and > in-person events such as WikidataCon, regional capacity‑building campaigns > in Africa, meetups at Wikimania and other conferences, XXX Days events like > Data Reuse Days and Lexico Days, and more. By connecting newcomers with > experienced mentors, by highlighting local hubs where editors can support > each other, and by linking each Item back to its relevant WikiProjects, > we’ll nurture more active, diverse, and resilient communities. > > Our third focus area is Increasing mission-aligned data reuse > > The Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects> team > will > improve the editing experience and increase productivity of Wikipedia > contributors by making it easier for editors to monitor, understand, and > act on changes to their watchlisted articles when the edit comes from > Wikidata. Displaying Wikidata edits in Watchlist and Recent Changes pages > is an opt-in feature of the user preferences; our aim is to increase > awareness, adoption, and utility of this function by summer 2026. > In parallel, we will raise awareness and contributors’ understanding of the > Wikidata integrations currently being used in the Wikimedia Projects > through a community outreach project by hosting an online conference, > Wikidata > and Sister Projects > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects>, > dedicated to celebrating and informing Wikimedians of the many ways > Wikidata currently supports the Wikimedia Projects. Additionally, we are > reviewing the available documentation on Wikidata integrations to ensure it > is updated, comprehensive, and available in multiple core languages. > > Refining platform services “as a service” is our fourth focus area. > > We’ll refine data access methods so Wikidata's data can be reused to build > meaningful services and applications. Specifically, we'll build out search > capabilities in the REST API so developers can discover and query data more > easily. We’ll ensure the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is optimized for its > core strength of supporting queries that need the graph -- keeping it fast > and reliable under complex workloads. Finally, we’ll improve our data dumps > to provide more accessible snapshots and subsets of Wikidata’s data. > > What does this mean for you? > > If you’re a mobile‑first contributor, editing from your phone will become > smooth and straightforward. If you’re a developer or researcher, you’ll > gain powerful new search endpoints in the REST API, a finely tuned Wikidata > Query Service for graph-centric queries, and cleaner, more timely data > dumps to build on. If you organize or participate in events, you’ll find > more support and clearer pathways to grow local hubs and share best > practices. If you’re leveraging Wikidata’s data to support your workflows > and content in other Wikimedia projects, you’ll have access to current > use-cases, examples and better documentation to refer to. Ultimately, every > update we make in this period is designed to give you more confidence, more > choice, and more impact as you add, improve, and reuse the world’s free > structured knowledge. > > We’ll keep you posted on progress throughout the year and as always, > welcome your questions and feedback on [talk page]. > It seems that some links are missing. Perhaps this refers to the talk page of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan/Wikidata_2025-2028 ? > > Thank you for your efforts to drive Wikidata forward. > > Best regards, > > The Wikidata Team > > Wikimedia Deutschland > -- > *Danny Benjafield* > Community Communications Manager > Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects > > Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0 > https://wikimedia.de > > Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, > Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now. > <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! > https://spenden.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. 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