Wikidata:Main Page
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.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 chatconnect.
Use data from Wikidata
- Learn how you can retrieve and use data from Wikidata.
- 2024-01-17: Join us for the next Wikidata+Wikibase office hour on Wednesday, January 17th at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin). We will discuss important issues related to Wikidata and Wikibase development and you can ask questions and chat with the development team. Don't miss out!
- 2023-12-25: The one hundred and twenty-four millionth item, about the family name "Tannemann", is created.
- 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.
- 2023-11-15: The Q123456789 item is created and, following much disagreement about its subject and notability, deleted.
- 2023-10-29: Wikidata is now 11 years old! Happy birthday!
- 2023-10-29: Wikidata records its 2,000,000,000th edit.
- 2023-10-21: Lexeme L1200000, for the Italian (Q652) word 'dismesso', meaning 'discontinued', is created.
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Item: Earth (Q2)
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Property: highest point (P610)
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custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)
Featured WikiProject:
WikiProject Music
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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.
More:
- Check out Wikidata:Tools for some of our best tools and gadgets for using and exploring Wikidata.
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Wikipedia – Encyclopedia
Wiktionary – Dictionary and thesaurus
Wikibooks – Textbooks, manuals, and cookbooks
Wikinews – News
Wikiquote – Collection of quotations
Wikisource – Library
Wikiversity – Learning resources
Wikivoyage – Travel guides
Wikispecies – Directory of species
Wikifunctions – Free software functions
Wikimedia Commons – Media repository
Incubator – New language versions
Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination
MediaWiki – Software documentation