Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday
Wikidata's distributed birthday | October-November 2025 | #WikidataBirthday
| Happy Birthday, Wikidata! 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who joined our Presents & Messages call and made the 13th birthday celebration so special. |
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
[edit]To add an event to the calendar, see Run an event#Schedule an event.
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Wa
Latin America in Wikidata 2025
Africa Wiki Women-Wikidata Birthday Celebration 2025
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group
Wikidata at 13 - Uganda Edition
Wikidata’s Thirteenth Birthday Celebration in Nairobi, Kenya
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Nigeria Book Foundation
Art+Feminism Celebrates Wikidata
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Kaduna, 2025
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Douala, 2025
Wiki Activate Africa -Wikidata 13th Anniversary
Wikidata's 13th Birthday Celebration – Hausa Wikipedians Usergroup
Wikidata 13th Birthday in Zanzibar, 2025
Wikidata 13th Birthday in Tanzania, 2025
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Minna Niger states, 2025
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Wikimedia Anambra Network
Wikidata 13th Birthday:Wikidata Gap Hunt – Finding and Filling Missing Pieces
Introducing the Igala Wikimedia Community to Wikidata at Wikidata's 13th Birthday Edition
Wikidata 13th Birthday in Taiwan: OpenRefine Workshop
Wikidata 13th Birthday in Taiwan: QuickStatements 3.0 Workshop
Celebrating Wikidata's 13th Birthday
Celebrating Wikidata's 13th Birthday
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration and Data-a-thon in the Tyap Wikimedians Community
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration Wikimedia Libya
Wikidata birthday celebration during the Italian WikiCon
Events map
[edit]To add an event to the map, see Run an event#Schedule an event.
Contacts
[edit]- Coordination of the Wikidata 13th birthday distributed events and communication: Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) – mohammed.abdulai
wikimedia.de
- Funding: Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) for Wikimedia Deutschland’s microgrant, or your Regional Program Officer for WMF’s Rapid Fund
- People interested in Wikidata events: Wikidata Events Telegram group
