Wikidata:Main Page
Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, 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 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
Use or contribute data:
- 2015-02-28: Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits.
- 2015-02-24: Phase 1 of Wikibooks has launched. Now you can link Wikibooks pages with every item.
- 2015-02-07: The nineteen-millionth item, about a military aircraft crash on South Korea's Jeju Island, is created.
- 2015-02-06: Wikibooks deployment planned to start February 24th, check out the coordination page.
- 2014-12-17: Language fallbacks and property datatype have launched.
- 2014-12-16: Google announces the closure of Freebase and migration to Wikidata
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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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"What's in a name?" asked Shakespeare's Juliet.
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
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 Wikispecies – Directory of species Wikimedia Commons – Media repository Incubator – New language versions Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination MediaWiki – Software documentation