Wikidata:Main Page
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Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.
Wikidata also will provide 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 datasets on the linked data web.![](http://web.archive.org./web/20141022110635im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Wikidata-logo_white.svg/27px-Wikidata-logo_white.svg.png)
- Learn all about Wikidata and how it works
- Check out a showcase item for author Douglas Adams
- Browse the Frequently Asked Questions
- Understand how to navigate the site
- Test out the software at the Wikidata sandbox
- Find help and relevant documentation
Start contributing:
- Find out how you can contribute
- Take an interactive tutorial and make your first edits
- Improve a random item
- Organize or attend an event
Go behind the scenes:
- Drop by the Community portal
- Say hello or ask a question on the Project chat
- Join a WikiProject to start working with others on a specific task or topic
Collaborate:
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- 2014-09-07: The eighteen-millionth item, about a fortress in Yesan, South Korea, is created.
- 2014-08-19: Sitelink to Wikinews and Wikidata, badges, redirects between items, and monolingual text datatype have launched.
- 2014-07-22: Wikinews deployment planned to start August 19th, check out the coordination page.
- 2014-06-10: Phase 2 of Wikiquote has launched.
- 2014-05-29: The seventeen-millionth-and-second item, about a 1994 album by Luciano, is created. Q17000000 was a duplicate item and Q17000001 was skipped by the software.
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item: Earth (Q2)
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property: highest point (P610)
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custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)
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Featured tutorial:
How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata.
Want to create a visual family history of anyone who has a Wikipedia article? Just follow Histropedia's tutorial and you'll learn how to harness the power of Wikidata in a few simple steps.
More:
- Check out Wikidata:Tools for some of our best tools and gadgets for using and exploring Wikidata.
- Browse our press clippings and collection of published research about 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 materials and activities
Wikivoyage – Travel guides
Wikimedia Commons – Media repository
Incubator – New language versions
Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination
MediaWiki – Software documentation