Hello everyone, We are excited to announce the upcoming Wikidata Query Service Days (October 17-23, 2026), an online event focused on the migration of the Wikidata Query Service from Blazegraph to QLever.
The event is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikidata Platform team. It will be a space for the community to come together around this major transition. 📅 Register here to get the access link to the event: Event:Query Service Days 2026 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Query_Service_Days_2026> What is this event about? The Wikidata Query Service is moving from Blazegraph to QLever. This is a significant change that will affect everyone who uses WDQS. For example, editors running maintenance queries or developers maintaining tools and services. This event is designed to: - Update the community on the current state of the migration - Help people get familiar with the new system and try it out - Explain what is changing and what you need to adapt to - Provide hands-on support for rewriting queries - Give the development teams deeper insight into community use cases and concerns Format and participation The event will be fully online, with live sessions spread over one week (October 17-23). Sessions will be recorded and made available afterwards. We will try to cover different time zones by repeating key sessions at multiple times. The Program A detailed schedule will be published in the coming weeks. Sessions will include: - Overview of the migration and timeline - Demo of the query rewriting tool - Hands-on workshops for rewriting queries - Sessions for tool maintainers and data reusers - Bug triage and Q&A sessions For any questions, feel free to write on the event talk page or reach out to Sannita (WMF), Danny Benjafield (WMDE), or myself directly. We look forward to seeing you at the Query Service Days. Cheers, -- Mohammed S. Abdulai *Senior Community Communications Manager, Wikidata* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 https://wikimedia.de Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: cal.com/masssly. A lot is happening around Wikidata - Keep up to date! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates> 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. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg, VR 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine
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