Today, Wikidata turns 13! 🎉 I am bringing a few small gifts. Two of them were already described in the Hackathon blog post I made earlier this week, but I’ll mention them again.

First, it was the sparql-minimizer tool, that can make your queries smaller and easier to use in other tools.

Second it was the animated Wikidata logo as a background on a wiki page. Those were also the more technical presents and the others are more creative.

One day in the grocery store, I found candy strings that came in almost red, green and blue and the way they were packaged got me associating to how we sometimes need to disentangle (detangle?) items on Wikidata. A photo shoot and some cleanup editing, and these images were made.

The last present just came in an inspiration, perhaps because I recently saw an old video of Sean Locke improvising a limerick. Anyway, here is mine.

A man from Q350.
Had statements that looked a bit shifty.
So without any force
he added a source.
With Citoid, oh wow, that was nifty.