Lydia Pintscher is the product manager of Wikidata. She studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe before joining Wikimedia in 2012. She is a long-time free software contributor, most notably as a member of the board of KDE e.V.

Wikidata is growing and ever-changing. In this session we want to give you a chance to learn about what mattered over the past year around Wikidata, reflect on where we are as a project now and look into the future to get excited about what's coming next for Wikimedia's knowledge base.

You will learn about the most important happenings around Wikidata over the past year and get a summary of key endeavours and challenges ahead for Wikidata.

These are the links mentioned during the presentation:

• Item Quality Evaluator
• CuriousFacts
• Query Service survey
• Lexicographical coverage
• Lexeme Forms tool
• lexic-o-days 2021
• Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study
• Election Tracker
• Entitree
• Entity Explosion
• What is the best thing?
• WikidataCon 2021
• Query Builder test system
• Mismatch Finder