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the free knowledge base with 56,861,828 data items that anyone can edit.

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Welcome!

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.

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.

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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 organisations 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 or via live IRC chat^connect.

Use data from Wikidata

Learn how you can retrieve and use data from Wikidata.

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News

2019-04-07: The sixty-three millionth item, about a protein, is created.
2019-04-02: Wikidata records its 900,000,000 edit.
2019-03-21: Link support with Wikimania has been added (The discussion)
2019-03-15: Wikidata records its 883,173,631 edit, overtaking the English Wikipedia to become the most edited Wikimedia website.
2019-03-08: The sixty-two millionth item, about the ciliate species Dysteria derouxi, is created.

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Item: Earth (Q2)
Property: highest point (P610)
custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)

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Innovative applications and contributions from the Wikidata community

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...

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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