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the free knowledge base with 103,471,084 data items that anyone can edit.

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Welcome!

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others.

Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects! The content of Wikidata is available under a free license, exported using standard formats, and can be interlinked to other open data sets on the linked data web.

Get involved

For a complete starters’ guide, visit the community portal.

Learn about Wikidata

• What is Wikidata? Read the Wikidata introduction.
• Explore Wikidata by looking at a featured showcase item for author Douglas Adams (Q42).
• Get started with Wikidata's SPARQL query service.

Contribute to Wikidata

• Learn to edit Wikidata: follow the tutorials.
• Work with other volunteers on a subject that interests you: join a WikiProject.
• Individuals and organizations can also donate data.

Meet the Wikidata community

• Visit the community portal or attend a Wikidata event.
• Create a user account.
• Talk and ask questions on the Project chat, Telegram groups, or the live IRC chat^connect.

Use data from Wikidata

• Learn how you can retrieve and use data from Wikidata.

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News

• 2023-04-17: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
• 2023-01-26: Lexeme L1000000, for the Nynorsk (Q25164) word 'etymologi', meaning 'etymology', is created.
• 2022-12-31: Lexeme L900000, for the Bokmål (Q25167) word 'urolog', meaning 'urologist', is created.
• 2022-12-28: Lexeme L800000, for the Nynorsk (Q25164) word 'fotballturnering', meaning 'football tournament', is created.
• 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!
• 2022-10-19: The number of Wikidata items surpasses 100 million.

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Learn about data

New to the wonderful world of data? Develop and improve your data literacy through content designed to get you up to speed and feeling comfortable with the fundamentals in no time.

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  Item: Earth (Q2)

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  Property: highest point (P610)

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  custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)

Current highlights

• Kofi Sonokpon (Q118397941)
• Belgorod People's Republic (Q118629252)
• HBO Max (Q65359104)
• Martin Amis (Q310176) (pictured)
• 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks (Q111607033)
• authority record (Q59646503)
• Ioannis Sarmas (Q118402778)

Discover

Innovative applications and contributions from the Wikidata community

Featured WikiProject:
WikiProject Music

Wikiproject Music is home to editors that help add data about artists, music releases, tracks, awards, and performances! Additionally, importing from and linking Wikidata with the many music databases and streaming services is another focus of the project. Read about our data model on our project page and come chat with us on Telegram.

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• Check out Wikidata:Tools for some of our best tools and gadgets for using and exploring Wikidata.

Know of an interesting project or research conducted using Wikidata? You can nominate content to be featured on the Main page here!

Contact

• Wikidata mailing list
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• Discussion requests for specific topics
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• Leave a message at project chat
• Chat on Telegram or on IRC^connect
• Report a technical problem
• Keep up-to-date: Weekly summaries

Wikidata is part of the non-profit, multilingual, free-content Wikimedia family.

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