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Today’s Answers Jupiter in true colour, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in January 2024.Image Wikimedia Commons Today is obviously is a disconnected collection of questions but don’t count on it. One In 2026, the EU, the European Union, has 27 members, butt is the successor organisation to what was originally the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). The ECSC was founded in 1952 by the six signatories of the Treaty of Paris: what were these six nations?

Image Wikimedia Commons Today is obviously is a disconnected collection of questions but don’t count on it. One In 2026, the EU, the European Union, has 27 members, butt is the successor organisation to what was originally the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). The ECSC was founded in 1952 by the six signatories of the Treaty of Paris: what were these six nations?

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The value of us, a celebration of collective impact 1 October 2026, **Alice Woods**. Sam, Alice and Gnangarra ready for their presentation at ALIA West 2026 In September 2026, Wikimedia Australia staff member Alice Woods and two Perth-based community members, Gnangarra and Sam Wilson, attended the ALIA West conference, which was hosted by the State Library of Western Australia in Perth. ALIA West are the Western Australian group of the Australian Library and Information Association, and this was their first two-day conference and their first chance to hold a conference in several years. The conference schedule was jam-packed with professionals from across Western Australia, and additional speakers from across Australia and the Maldives were present. Wikimedia Australia presented about GLAM partnerships and opportunities available with us, including our partnership projects and highlights from these over the last few years. In our presentation, we were also able to feature amazing projects that have already taken place in the region, many of which were led by WikiClubWest. These include Noongarpedia (a Noongar language instance of Wikipedia) and WikiTowns (such as Freopedia and Toodyaypedia). Over the two days, Alice, Gnangarra and Sam were also able to meet and talk to various people from institutions around the region about projects they may want to take on or take part in, and we hope that there will be many outcomes from these. The Wikifying a Conference Guide Additionally, with the help of Tamsin Braisher and Mike Dickison’s ‘Wikifying a Conference: a guide for Wikimedians’, we were able to learn and improve how we documented the conference, which included the creation of several new Wikidata items and other ‘on-Wiki’ activities. Thank you to ALIA West and the State Library of Western Australia for hosting, and to everyone who came along to our session. If your organisation is interested in working with Wikimedia Australia, find out more about our partnership projects or get in touch.

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As generative AI tools become the default way many people search for information, the question of **_where that information comes from_** matters more than ever. Wikimedia Deutschland’s Wikidata Embedding Project offers a concrete answer: it turns Wikidata’s vast, community-verified knowledge base into something small AI systems and humans can use to enable searches by meaning, not just by keyword. It demonstrates what public-interest AI infrastructure can and should look like. **What it does** The project applies vector-based semantic search to Wikipedia and its sister platforms’ existing data, covering nearly 120 million entries. Until now, Wikidata’s machine-readable data could only be accessed through keyword searches and specialised SPARQL queries — powerful, but difficult for smaller AI applications working with natural language and hard to learn for ordinary users. The new vector database changes that, and it also adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the emerging standard that lets AI systems communicate directly with external data sources. In practice, this means a query like “scientist” no longer returns just a keyword match — it surfaces related concepts such as nuclear scientists or Bell Labs researchers, translations, and linked images, giving AI systems the kind of contextual grounding that reduces hallucination and improves traceability. **Built openly, with partners** Wikimedia Deutschland developed the project in Berlin with Jina.AI and DataStax, and released it as a freely accessible public tool. It launched as a **fully open and trasnparent alternative to the closed and intransparent datasets that power most commercial AI systems** , giving developers a transparent, verifiable foundation to build on instead**.** It’s a working demonstration of what public-interest AI infrastructure can look like: multilingual, open, transparent and community-governed — proof that trustworthy AI doesn’t have to mean closed-off AI. **How to get involved** **Developers** can start building with the public vector database directly and test it against their own use cases, from fact-checking tools to knowledge assistants. Anyone working on multilingual NLP or embeddings can help extend coverage beyond the current English, French, and Arabic support. **Research communities** can help, for instance, by flagging feedback or issues back to the Wikidata team. Of course, **financing** further development is always welcome. And for **anyone simply curious** , joining the project’s community discussions or an upcoming webinar is an easy way to follow where it goes next.

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