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Welcome! Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in every language supported by the MediaWiki software. You can read the introduction to learn more about Wikidata. See Wikidata in action: View the item about Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. If you'd like to test out the Wikidata software, please use the sandbox.
Contribute Introduction to Wikidata Glossary of terms used on Wikidata List of properties used in Wikidata entries Community portal Project chat Policies and guidelines Frequently asked questions Check out some of our best gadgets and scripts Patrol recent changes Help with missing labels and descriptions Help fixing item properties violating their constraints See latest database reports Improve a random item Requests for deletions Contact the developers More ways to contribute... Use Wikidata on your wiki Wikidata is an open source project, and the data is freely accessible Please note that the API for accessing the data will change! Get the Wikidata client extension on your wiki Wikibase repository extensions	News 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 17, 2013: The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created. July 5, 2013: Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, check out the coordination page. June 10, 2013: The coordinates datatype is now available, and can be used with the coordinate location (P625) property, as it currently is on the New York City item. June 9, 2013: Wikidata is edited for the 50,000,000th time, just over seven months after the site's creation. Wikidata is the eighth-ever Wikimedia project to pass this milestone, and one of only two to do so that are not Wikipedias. More news... (edit [in English]) Staying up-to-date with development Weekly updates Mailing list Technical mailing list IRC channel^connect Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook, Google+, Quora On-wiki newsletter (archive) Events Press coverage
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