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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.Learn about Wikidata
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- 2020-02-17: Lexeme L250000, for the Slovak word riadenie ('management'), is created.
- 2020-02-13: The eighty-five millionth item, about the article "Determining knowledge and behaviour change after nutrition screening among older adults", published in 2010, is created.
- 2019-12-27: The eighty millionth item, about the artwork "Medal" is created.
- 2019-11-14: The seventy-five millionth item, about the star "HD 321239" is created.
- 2019-11-13: Lexeme L222222, for the Kurdish word qertaf ('appendix'), is created.
- 2019-10-11: Lexeme L200000 for the English word "spiritualistically" is created.
- 2019-10-07: The seventy millionth item, about the chemical compound "3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole", is created.
Item: Earth (Q2)
Property: highest point (P610)
custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)
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"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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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