Slides for Ada Homolova and Johan Schuijt's Wikimania 2026 session about EveryPolitician, Wikidata, and PoliLoom — and why nobody knows who runs the world, yet.
There is no complete, up-to-date list of the world's politicians. Records are scattered across thousands of governments, in every language and format, and they change constantly. We're fixing that by making Wikidata the definitive source on who holds power — and we need your help.
- Verify data with PoliLoom — our tool shows politician data extracted from the web, each claim backed by a verbatim quote from the source. You confirm or reject it; confirmed edits go to Wikidata under your account. → loom.everypolitician.org
- Edit Wikidata — join the WikiProject or help GovDirectory map the world's governments.
- Write code — github.com/opensanctions/poliloom and the crawler planning repo.
- Talk to us — discuss.opensanctions.org. What worked, what didn't, what would make you come back?
See everypolitician.org/about/contribute for the full picture.