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Wikidata's distributed birthday | October-November 2025 | #WikidataBirthday


Thirteenth Birthday

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Happy Birthday, Wikidata! 🎉

A huge thank you to everyone who joined our Presents & Messages call and made the 13th birthday celebration so special.

🎁 Watch the replay and browse all the community gifts. 🎁

Wikidata turns 13 on 29 October 2025! 🥳

Since 2012, the Wikidata community has grown to include tens of thousands of editors, billions of edits, and millions of Items. Let’s come together to celebrate this amazing milestone with meetups, workshops, fun, and presents from all over the world.

This year, we’re building a vibrant network of decentralized, local, and community-led activities. These can be online or onsite, and will take place throughout October and November 2025.

The goals of these celebrations are to:

  • 🎉 Celebrate the achievements of the Wikidata community
  • 🤝 Bring people together across languages and regions
  • 🌍 Raise awareness of Wikidata and invite new people to join

All over the world, communities will host birthday meetups, workshops, edit-a-thons, livestreams, hackathons, and more. Check out the events calendar below to find something happening near you, or organize your own.

We especially encourage local Wikidata groups, affiliates, and individuals to hold special events, or dedicate one of their usual meetups to the birthday. Run an event. Funding support is available from Wikimedia Deutschland, and a communications kit will help you promote and decorate your birthday events.

As always, people are also preparing Presents & messages. These include new tools, data visualizations, logos, poems, and other creative contributions. Others are writing blog posts, creating videos, and sharing their Wikidata love on social media.

To stay connected with the community of event organizers, feel free to use the talk page or join the Wikidata Events Telegram group.

Let’s make this a birthday to remember! 🎂✨

Events calendar

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To add an event to the calendar, see Run an event#Schedule an event.


Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Wa 1 October - 29 October 2025 Wali Wikimedians Community Wali (wlx) Wa, Ghana

Latin America in Wikidata 2025 1 October - 31 October Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Chile, Wikimedistas de Bolivia, Wikimedistas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Wikimedistas de Uruguay Spanish (es), Portuguese (pt) Online, Latin America

Africa Wiki Women-Wikidata Birthday Celebration 2025 October 2nd - October 31, 2025 Africa Wiki Women English (en), French (Fr) Online

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group October 18 – October 31, 2025 Igbo Wikimedians User Group English (en), Igbo (ig) Abuja and Awka, Nigeria

Wikidata at 13 - Uganda Edition October 18, 2025 Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda English (en), Luganda (lg) Kampala, Uganda

Wikidata’s Thirteenth Birthday Celebration in Nairobi, Kenya October 15 – October, 2025 Ngangaesther English & Swahili Kenya National Library Service Buruburu

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Nigeria Book Foundation October 20 – October 31, 2025 Nigeria Book Foundation English (en), Igbo (ig) Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria

Event:Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Bangladesh 07 November 2025 Dhaka Wikimedia Community (Q133457372) (Contact person: Yahya) Bangla (bn) Dhaka, Bangladesh

Soirée pyjama des 13 ans de Wikidata 24 October 2025 - evening Ash_Crow, Harmonia_Amanda & Sukkoria, with the support of Wikimédia France French (fr) Paris (Wikimedia France's offices)

Q135285660@Q27945856 24 October 2025 - 17:00-22:00 looniverse, Hogü-456 German (de) temporärhaus, Augsburger Straße 23-25, 89231 Neu-Ulm

Birthday presents demo (call to unveil birthday presents) 29 October 2025 Wikimedia Deutschland English (en) Jitsi online stream

Wikidata Lexemes in Central Bikol Edit-a-thon 2025 29-31, October 2025 Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group Central Bicol, Tagalog, English Pasacao, Camarines Sur

Art+Feminism Celebrates Wikidata 29 October Art+Feminism User Group English (en) Online, USA

Celebrating Wikidata's 13th Birthday 29 October 2025 Wiki Palestine Arabic - English State of Palestine (Hybrid)

Drop in and Wikidata in Australia Thursday 30 October, 2025, 7pm AEDT Wikimedia Australia English Online

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Kaduna, 2025 October 30– November 20, 2025 WUGN - Kaduna Network English (en), Hausa (ha) Kaduna state, Nigeria

Event:WikidataCon 2025 31 October 2025 – 2 November 2025 Wikimedia Deutschland English (en) Jitsi online stream

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Douala, 2025 25 October to 1 November, 2025 Club Wikipedia Douala (Contact person: ArnoBOUJIKA) French (fr) Bolo Espace Art et Culture

Wiki Activate Africa -Wikidata 13th Anniversary 11th October – 1st November 2025 Wiki Activate Africa English (en) Online & Physical Meetup (Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria)

Wikidata's 13th Birthday Celebration – Hausa Wikipedians Usergroup 1st – 31st October, 2025 Muhammad Idriss Criteria and El-hussain14 Hausa and English Yobe Nigeria

GLAM Wiki 2025 30 October to 1 November, 2025 Wikimedia Portugal (WMPT) and Wiki Editoras Lx (WELx) English (en) Lisbon, Portugal

The 5th Wikidata workshop 2-3 November 2025 Part of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2025 English (en) Nara, Japan

Event:Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Zambia 1-30 October 2025 Wikimedia Community User Group Zambia English (en) Lusaka, Zambia

Wikidata Days Takoradi 2025 4 October - 11 October 2025 Robertjamal12 Fante (fat), English (en) Cape Coast, Ghana

Wikidata Day 2025 in Côte d'Ivoire 11 October 2025 Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire French (fr) Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

1 October - 15 November 2025 Ghanaian Educators Wikimedia Community Dagbani (dag), Dagaare (dga), Moore, Anufɔ, English (en), etc Tamale, Ghana

Wikidata 13th Birthday in Benin 25 october - 15 November 2025 Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group (Q63762010) French, Fon Abomey-Calavi, Bénin

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Nairobi, Kenya October 26th–November 7th 2025 Cmwaura and Ms Kabintie English & Swahili Nairobi, Kenya

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Kigali, Rwanda October 01th–October 15th 2025 Annick green and Cnyirahabihirwe12345 English & Kinyarwanda Kigali, Rwanda

Wikidata 13th Birthday in Zanzibar, 2025 October 15 – November 15, 2025 Wikimedia Community Zanzibar Swahili (sw) Zanzibar

Wikidata 13th Birthday in Tanzania, 2025 October 15 – November 15, 2025 Global WikiEducation Initiative Swahili (sw) Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Minna Niger states, 2025 October 26th – 20 November, 2025 Umar A Muhammad and Smshika Hausa and English Niger States, Nigeria

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Wikimedia Anambra Network October 15th – October 31st, 2025 Ennydavidson, Dokimazo99 English (en), Igbo (ig), Hausa (ha), Yoruba (yo) Anambra state, Nigeria, Osun state, Nigeria

Wikidata 13th Birthday:Wikidata Gap Hunt – Finding and Filling Missing Pieces October 28 – October 31, 2025 JosefAnthony English (en), Hausa (ha), Igbo (ig) Abuja, Nigeria

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Northern Nigeria October 1st - October 31st, 2025 Hadaka Open Learning Network, Meritkosy, Umabruka English (en), Hausa (ha), Igbo (ig) and Yoruba (yo) Kano, Benue and Gombe, Nigeria

Introducing the Igala Wikimedia Community to Wikidata at Wikidata's 13th Birthday Edition October 15– November 15, 2025 AgnesAbah Henry Ojonugwa Ogalihillary and Igala Wikimedia Community English (En) Igala (Igl) kogi

Arabic Wikidata Days 2025 31 October - 2 November 2025 Wikidata Arabic Community Arabic (ar) Online

Wikidata 13th Birthday in Taiwan: Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation 25 October Se-cyun Wikipidiya Seejiq 賽德克族維基百科社群、Wikidata Taiwan (Q65555605) Kari Seediq (trv), Mandarin(zh-tw),Taiwanese REST Book & Bed, Puli, Nantou, Taiwan

Celebrating Wikidata's 13th Birthday 11th October Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana English, Setswana Botswana (Online)

Celebrating Wikidata's 13th Birthday October 5 – October 15, 2025 Dagbani Wikimedians User Group Dagbani,Kusaal,Gurene, and Dagaare. Tamale, Ghana

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration and Data-a-thon in the Tyap Wikimedians Community November 1 – November 30, 2025 Tyap Wikimedians User Group English (en), Tyap (kcg) Kaduna, Nigeria

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Togo 25 October - 15 November 2025 Wikimedia Togo fr,en,ee Lome, Togo

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration Wikimedia Libya 25 October 2025 Wikimedia Libya Arabic Benghazi, Libya

Birthday Celebration in Kochi, India 25th October 2025 09:30AM - 01:00PM Wikimedians of Kerala User Group English IBS Software, Infopark, Kochi

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Indonesia 26 October 2025 Indonesian Wikidata Community Bahasa Indonesia/ minang padang, west sumatra and palembang, South Sumatra

Wikidata Birthday Celebration at Lunchipedia in Dunedin, New Zealand --> Friday 31st October 12.30-1.30 pm DrThneed English Seminar Room 2, Central Library, University of Otago

Wikidata Sprint 2025 28 October-31 October 2025 Deoband Community Wikimedia English, Urdu and a few other Indic languages Aligarh, Deoband and New Delhi

Wikidata's 13th birthday celebration in Istanbul 1 November 13:00-16:00 (UTC +3) Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey Turkish Istanbul, Turkey

Event:Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Seattle 1 November 1pm–4:45pm PDT Seattle meetup / Cascadia Wikimedians English Capitol Hill Branch Library, Seattle, WA, US

Wikidata 13th Birthday Datathon 2 November - 6 November (IST, UTC +5:30) Punjabi Wikimedians Punjabi Online

Wikidata birthday celebration during the Italian WikiCon 8 November 20:30 (UTC+1) Auregann, GiovanniPen, Sannita Italian Catania, Sicily, Italy

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Malaysia 1 November 20:00 (UTC+8) Tofeiku Malay Online

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Tyap Community 1 November 10:00-04:00 (UTC+1) Tyap Wikimedians User Group Tyap and English Hybrid

Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration at Kannur, Kerala, India 15 November 10:00-04:00 (UTC+5.30) Wikimedians of Kerala Malayalam and English Kannur University (Swami Anandatheertha Campus, Payyannur)

Event:Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Sharjah, UAE 1st November 7:00 PM (GST) Akbarali Arabic and English The First World Academy, Sharjah

First steps in Wikidata for the Wikimedia LGBT Community 14 November - 2:00 PM UTC Wikimedia LGBT Spanish Online, global

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To add an event to the map, see Run an event#Schedule an event.

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Contacts

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  • Coordination of the Wikidata 13th birthday distributed events and communication: Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) – mohammed.abdulai@wikimedia.de