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 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.![](http://web.archive.org./web/20161106023948im_/https://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
Use or contribute data:
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- 2016-10-29: Wikidata celebrates its fourth birthday!
- 2016-09-24: The twenty-seven-millionth item, about a hill in Iceland, is created.
- 2016-07-25: "marriageable age", property number three-thousand, is created.
- 2016-07-24: The twenty-six-millionth item, about an Argentinian short film, is created.
- 2016-06-28: The twenty-five-millionth item, about an Indonesian headland, is created.
- 2016-05-11: ArticlePlaceholder has launched.
- 2016-05-04: Phase 2 of Wikiversity has launched.
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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 WikiProject:
WikiProject Names.
"What's in a name?" asked Shakespeare's Juliet.
The answer: a lot of rich data in need of structure and new properties. But thanks to growing user contributions and the work of a new WikiProject, Wikidata is getting better at supporting name-related data—and can tell you that Juliet also goes by Julika, and Giulia, and Hülya, and Liana, and Uljana...
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
Wikispecies – Directory of species
Wikimedia Commons – Media repository
Incubator – New language versions
Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination
MediaWiki – Software documentation