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Wikidata item creation progress

Current news

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  • 2024-11-21: Coming up: Data Reuse Days 2025, an online event focusing on people using Wikidata's data on applications and tools, 18-27 February 2025, online.
  • 2024-10-29: Wikidata is now 12 years old! Happy birthday!
  • 2024-10-15: The Wikidata development team held the Q4 office hours on October 16 at 16:00 UTC. They talked about what they've been working on in the past quarter. Session log is available.
  • 2024-08-28: The one hundred and thirty millionth item, a scholarly article, is created.
  • 2024-07-10: The Wikidata development team held the Q3 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour on July 10th at 16:00 UTC. They presented their work from the past quarter and discussed what's coming next for Q3. Find the session log here.
  • 2024-05-07: Wikidata records its 231th edit, the revision IDs not fitting into 32-bit signed integer anymore

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2024

2023

  • 2023-11-30: Wikidata holds the Data Modelling Days, an online event focused on how to describe and organise data in Wikidata, from the 30th of November to the 2nd of December.
  • 2023-10-29: Wikidata is now 11 years old! Happy birthday!
  • 2023-10-18: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 16:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2023-05-13: Wikidata tool QuickStatements (Q20084080) ran its batch 200000.

2022

  • 2022-11-09: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2022-10-29: Wikidata is now 10 years old! Happy birthday!
  • 2022-10-03: Wikidata tool QuickStatements (Q20084080) ran its batch 100000, tagging documents for Project Riksdagen's documents (Q114364300).
  • 2022-07-27: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2022-07-21: Lua access for lexemes is now available on all Wikimedia projects.
  • 2022-07: Wikidata holds the Data Quality Days, a series of online events focusing on data quality, from the 8th to the 10th.
  • 2022-04-20: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2022-03: Wikidata holds the Data Reuse Days, a series of online events focusing on data reuse, from the 14th to the 24th.
  • 2022-01-19: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.

2021

  • 2021-10-29: Wikidata turns 9! Happy birthday!
  • 2021-10: WikidataCon 2021 takes place online from the 29th to the 31st.
  • 2021-09: Wikidata holds the Data Quality Days, a series of online events focusing on data quality, from the 8th to the 15th.

2020

2019

September

August

March

  • 2019-03-21: Link support with Wikimania has been added (The discussion)

January

  • 2019-01-19: Wikidata passed 7 billion triples (source)

2018

October

April

  • 2018-04-20: Wikidata passed 5 billion triples (source)
  • 2018-04-12: The deployment of the first version of lexicographical data is planned for end of May 2018.

March

2017

November

  • 2017-11-30: Wikidata passed 4 billion triples (source)

June

  • 2017-06-20: Phase 1 of Wiktionary has launched. Now you can link Wiktionary pages with every item for all the Wiktionaries namespaces (except main, citations, user and talk).
  • 2017-06-01: Phase 1 of Wiktionary is planned to start June 20th.

May

  • 2017-05-15: Tabular data datatype has launched.

April

  • 2017-04-24: Geographic shape datatype has launched.
  • 2017-04-24: Phase 0 (automatic interwiki links) of Wiktionary has launched.
  • 2017-04-05: Phase 0 (automatic interwiki links) of Wiktionary is planned to start April 24th, 2017, check out the coordination page.

2016

October

May

April

February

  • 2016-02-23: Phase 1 of Wikiversity has launched.
  • 2016-02-16: The datatype identifier has launched, and the "in other projects" sidebar is enabled by default on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia.
  • 2016-02-09: The mathematical expression datatype has launched.
  • 2016-02-01: Wikiversity deployment planned to start February 23rd, check out the coordination page.

2015

October

  • 2015-10-29: Wikidata turns three years old. Read about the past year and what is coming next.
  • 2015-10-20: Meta, Wikispecies and MediaWiki get access to the sitelinks on Wikidata.

September

  • 2015-09-22: Phase 2 of Wikibooks has launched.
  • 2015-09-16: Arbitrary access is deployed to every Wikimedia wikis that phase 2 supported except Wikimedia Commons.
  • 2015-09-09: Meta, MediaWiki.org and Wikispecies deployment planned to start October 20th.
  • 2015-09-09: Unit support has launched.
  • 2015-09-09: Usage tracking is deployed to every Wikimedia wikis that phase 1 supported.

July

June

  • 2015-06-01: Arbitrary access for Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects has launched.

May

  • 2015-05-11: Arbitrary access for Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource has launched.
  • 2015-05-06: Arbitrary access for Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource is planned to start May 11th.

February

2014

December

November

October

August

  • 2014-08-19: Sitelink to Wikinews and Wikidata, badges, redirects between items, and monolingual text datatype have launched.

July

June

  • 2014-06-10: Phase 2 of Wikiquote has launched.

April

  • 2014-04-08: Phase 1 of Wikiquote has launched. Now you can link Wikiquote pages with every item.

March

February

  • 2014-02-25: Phase 2 of Wikisource has launched to allow data access, and performance improvements were deployed.

January

2013

December

  • December 31, 2013: User:Dexbot became the first bot to reach 10,000,000 edits in one Wikimedia project.
  • December 10, 2013: Ordering, ranks and a table of content have launched.

November

October

September

August

July

  • July 23, 2013: Phase 1 of Wikidata has gone live on Wikivoyage. In addition, when you move a page on Wikivoyage, Wikidata will automatically update. (This long-awaited feature will be available on Wikipedia as well on the 25th.)
  • July 5, 2013: Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, check out the coordination page.

June

May

April

March

February

January

2012

December

November

October

  • October 29, 2012: Wikidata is launched. Several bugs have been fixed and the Wikidata repository should be functional. Please report errors!
  • October 26, 2012: The Wikidata database is created but is not available for editing yet.


Milestones

Items


Properties

Lexemes

Schemas

  • 2023-07-21: Entity schema E400, about an archival resource in the Yale University Art Gallery, is created.
  • 2021-04-15: Entity schema E300, for a motor racing season, is created.
  • 2020-04-15: Entity schema E200, for a Russian noun with paucal, is created.
  • 2019-07-21: Entity schema E100, for a city, is created.
  • 2019-05-28: Entity schema E10, for a human, is created.
  • 2019-05-28: Entity schema E1, for a ShEx entity schema, is created.

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