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Thanks to our Outreachy intern Nurah Wakili, we're gradually releasing some new features in Paulina related to creating and editing author and work items on Wikidata. You can help us test the new features by going to our website, logging in with your Wikimedia account and editing. Please let us know if you find any bug or issue: https://paulina.toolforge.org

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Paulina invites you to learn about the cultural heritage of humanity. It is a multilingual tool, powered by Wikidata, that allows you to search for people and find out if they have freely accessible works in the public domain. It also facilitates the understanding of copyright terms and helps to know when a work enters the public domain in each country.

Paulina - Data for the Public Domain

Paulina Feb 9

A tutorial in Telugu language about Wikiflix and Paulina: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiflix_and_Paulina_Tools_Telugu_Tutorial.webm

File:Wikiflix and Paulina Tools Telugu Tutorial.webm - Wikimedia Commons

Paulina Feb 3

Wikimedistas de Uruguay Jan 29

RE: https://wikis.world/@paulina/115974168346250724

Muy lindo el post de Nurah para tener una idea de cómo puede ser *tu* futuro como parte de la comunidad técnica del movimiento Wikimedia ✨

Paulina Feb 2

La herramienta Paulina es parte de un esfuerzo mayor para mejorar la información sobre el patrimonio cultural de América Latina, y del Sur Global, en Wikidata, y así facilitar el descubrimiento y el acceso a la cultura en Internet. Si quieren involucrarse en estos esfuerzos para reducir huecos de conocimiento sobre patrimonio cultural en Wikidata, pueden sumarse al wikiproyecto "Dominio Público en América Latina": https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Dominio_P%C3%BAblico_en_Am%C3%A9rica_Latina

Wikidata:WikiProject Dominio Público en América Latina - Wikidata

Paulina Jan 30

Many people ask about the story behind the name ‘Paulina’. When the project began, we called it Data Tools for the Public Domain. It was a long, quite boring name, so we thought about renaming the tool after an author whose works were in the public domain. Paulina Luisi was a Uruguayan feminist author and doctor from the early 20th century, and we thought her name was a good option.
Of course, you can learn more about Paulina Luisi, and access her works, visiting Paulina: https://paulina.toolforge.org/author/Q7154948

Paulina Luisi

Paulina - Data for the Public Domain

Paulina Jan 29

Paulina is available in 15 languages thanks to the contributions of dozens of volunteers. Would you like the tool to be available in your language? You can help translate it: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/paulina/

Get involved in Paulina!

Paulina is being translated into 20 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.

Hosted Weblate

Paulina Jan 28

Wikimedia México Jan 28

Ven a platicar sobre el dominio público y el papel de las instituciones culturales el jueves 29 de enero.

🕛 16h
🏛️ Terraza del Museo del Estanquillo
🎟️ Entrada libre

Paulina Jan 28

This year Paulina is participating in @outreachy, an internship program that aims to increase the presence of underrepresented communities in the open source world. Around 20 people applied for our project, which involves adding functionality to edit Wikidata directly within the Paulina tool. The developer selected for the internship is Nurah Wakili, from Nigeria, who is doing an great job and is blogging about the experience. We recommend reading her latest post: https://nunucodes.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/midpoint-project-progress-integrating-wikidata-editing-into-paulina/

Midpoint Project Progress: Integrating Wikidata Editing into Paulina

Reaching the midpoint of this internship has been a good opportunity to pause and reflect on how far the project has come. My core responsibility during this period has been to integrate Wikidata e…

My Outreachy Diary

Paulina Jan 27

Paulina is a free software project and its development is collaborative. The code repository is available on Wikimedia's GitLab: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/paulina
We also maintain a page with the technical documentation: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Paulina/Software_Documentation
We welcome contributions and suggestions for new features. We also encourage you to report bugs or suggest improvements on our issue tracker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/7320/

toolforge-repos / paulina · GitLab

A global, multilingual search interface for works and authors in the public domain using Wikidata, Python and Flask. Public version available at

GitLab

Paulina Jan 26

One of Paulina's most useful features is that, thanks to #Wikidata, it allows you to find out the copyright term for any country. In the top menu, you can click on the "Countries and Terms" option to access a list of countries with their respective copyright terms: https://paulina.toolforge.org/countries/

Clicking on a particular country will give you access to more information and statistics. We plan to add much more info to the country pages in the coming months to help you discover local works and authors.