Wikidata:Events
Do you want to meet other Wikidata editors, attend a workshop or organize one? Don't hesitate to add a section on this page or use the talk page to suggest ideas! To help us advertise the event, please consider adding it to the next issue of the weekly newsletter.
If you are planning a workshop for Wikidata editors, see Wikidata:Planning a Wikidata workshop. You can also join the Wikidata Events Telegram group.
Upcoming and ongoing events
If you're adding an event here, please consider adding it to the next issue of the newsletter as well!
Ongoing events Ongoing events: Events that start before but continue within the selected dates
October 2026
- 11
Niger - Documenter les Jeux Olympiques de la Jeunesse Dakar 2026
11 October 2026 – 31 December 2026 - 10
Wikidata birthday 2026-Wikidata at 14: Empowering Igala Community Through Open Structured Data
10 October 2026 – 31 October 2026 - 10
Bada Gudummuwa a Wikipedia a Zamanin Fasahar AI
10 October 2026 – 17 October 2026 - 3
Growing Igbo Lexemes Edit-a-thon
3 October 2026 – 13 October 2026 - 3
Africa Wiki Women-14th Wikidata Birthday Celebration
3 October 2026 – 31 October 2026 - 1
Wikidata 14th Birthday Celebration 2026 in Zanzibar
1 October 2026 – 10 November 2026 - 1
Latinoamérica en Wikidata 2026
1 October 2026 – 16 November 2026 - 1
WIKIDATA IN KWASU
1 October 2026 – 31 October 2026 - 1
Wolofal Wiki Senegal - Wikidata 14 - Bés bu dellusi mo neex
1 October 2026 – 15 November 2026
September 2026
- 30
WikiHeritage Fellowship 2.0 to Document the Untold Stories of Women in Pre-Colonial Lagos
30 September 2026 – 6 November 2026 - 27
Project Canadian STEM
27 September 2026 – 1 November 2026 - 26
Wiki AfriMusique Burkina / Edition pilote 2
26 September 2026 – 25 October 2026 - 25
ورشة توثيق المصطلحات الطبية
25 September 2026 – 25 October 2026 - 20
WikiCOP 2026 in Côte d’Ivoire
20 September 2026 – 20 December 2026 - 15
SheSaid 2026 au Sénégal : Dooleel kàddu jigeen ñi ci wikiquote
15 September 2026 – 31 December 2026 - 12
Como se escreve uma colecção?
12 September 2026 – 31 December 2026 - 10
Projet de contribution sur prix national d’excellence 2026 Côte d’Ivoire/Wikimedia Civ
10 September 2026 – 17 October 2026 - 1
Wikimedia Argentina/Libro para colorear
1 September 2026 – 31 January 2027 - 1
The Coronation of King Jaja Jeki VI: Documenting Cultural Heritage - NNFP THREE
1 September 2026 – 31 October 2026
August 2026
- 26
GOIF-WESTEND Project 2026
26 August 2026 – 1 January 2027 - 1
100 Wikidays des Wikimédiens du Bénin
1 August 2026 – 31 March 2027
July 2026
- 1
Yoruba Wikipedia Top Contributor of the Week
1 July 2026 – 30 June 2027
June 2026
- 8
Documenta Asturies
8 June 2026 – 31 December 2026 - 7
Wolofal Wiki 2026
7 June 2026 – 31 December 2026
February 2026
- 27
DIANA 2026
27 February 2026 – 29 December 2026 - 7
Wiki-N'zuñdeuh Focus
7 February 2026 – 30 November 2026
Upcoming events Upcoming events: Events that start within the selected dates
October 2026
- 13
TWU KASU Librarians Wikimedia Outreach Stream 1
13 October 2026 – 31 October 2026 - 15
Wikidata 14th Birthday Celebration in Northern Nigeria
15 October 2026 – 15 November 2026 - 15
WikiData Days in Africa/2026
15 October 2026 – 22 October 2026 - 16
Campaña mujeres del Sur Global 2026
16 October 2026 – 31 October 2026 - 16
Wikidata 14th birthday in Igbo Wikimedians User Group
16 October 2026 – 17 October 2026
Query Service Days 2026
- ❓✨ Query Service Days 2026 is coming soon! October 17 to 23.
- This online event focusing on the migration of the Wikidata Query Service from Blazegraph to QLever, and supporting the Wikidata community, tool maintainers and data reusers with adapting their queries and tools to the new endpoint.
- 🗓️ Session program is out now, and is designed to repeat sessions for different timezones, ensuring we reach as many Wikimedians as possible.
- 🔗 Register for news, updates and most importantly, access links to the conferencing software.
- 🗣️ Please share this event with anyone you know who makes use of SPARQL, the Wikidata Query Service or Wikidata lists, as there is a very high chance they will be affected!
Active regular meetups
- Wikidata workshops and meetings in Vienna. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Vienna and Wikidata:Events/Vienna/WikidataWednesday
- Wikidata workshops and meetings in Taiwan. See the detailed program on meta:Wikidata Taiwan 2026 event and Wikidata:Events/Taiwan.
- Regular Wikidata Talks events in Istanbul. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Istanbul.
- Weekly meetings in Swedish online. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Swedish online editathon.
- Weekly online Wiki helpdesk in Belgium on Tuesday from 19:00-21:00 CET/CEST.
Other meetups
These groups may not be active, or maybe the pages are not up-to-date. Feel free to contact the editors to revive the meetups!
- Wikidata:Events/Paris held in Paris every third Friday of the month (see the detailed program) - Note: Inactive, last meeting took place in March 2020.
- Wikidata:Events/Kampala
- Wikidata meetup in Berlin - Note: Inactive, last meeting took place in September 2020.
- Regular Wikidata events are held in Tartu. See the detailed program on Wikidata:Events/Tartu.
- Events and workshops in Mexico on Wikidata:Events/Mexico
- Events and workshops in Argentina on Wikidata:Events/Argentina
Office hours
The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
They are announced on the Wikidata mailing list and in the Weekly Summary.
- Next: October 7th (1800 CEST)
- Where: Wikidata Telegram group
- Previous: July 08th (1800 CEST) (see also the list of all previous sessions and notes)
Wikidata bug triage hour
The bug triage hour is an online event where the product manager of Wikidata publicly works on triaging development tasks (typically on Phabricator), improving their descriptions, defining their priority, and collecting the wishes and needs from the Wikidata community. This experiment is part of the improvements on the support process, starting in February 2021.
The event is open to anyone who is interested in the development of Wikidata. When joining the event, the participants commit on following the Code of Conduct for technical spaces.
- Date and time: Monday, April 15, at 18:00 CEST (16:00 UTC, see other time zones), during one hour
- Place: Jitsi Meet
- Topic: Mobile statement editing
- Speaker: Lydia Pintscher
- Moderation and time-keeping: Léa Lacroix, Mohammed Abdulai
- Language: English (German and French also possible)
- Preparation: bring your favorite Phabricator task related to mobile statement editing!
- Main rules: In order to keep the discussions easy to follow, please keep your microphone muted, and interact in the text chat.
- Recording and documentation: the event is not recorded, collaborative notes can be taken by participants here
This event is in an experimental phase: the format, tools used, and many other things are still going to evolve in the future. If you have ideas, suggestions or issues, feel free to contact Léa.
- Documentation of previous sessions: Etherpad
Past events
You can find a (probably incomplete) list of past events and office hours on the archive page.